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Or how about solar panels, the silicon cousins of semiconductors? The price of photovoltaic modules halved 500 times between 1975 and 2019, to the extent that new solar cells are now considerably cheaper, per megawatt hour of power, than new coal or gas-fired plants.
Material World: A Substantial Story of Our Past and Future
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