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Gold/Mining/Energy : SunPower Announces Initial Public Offering SPWR -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Sidney Reilly who wrote (2)	12/14/2005 9:20:03 AM
From: Art Bechhoefer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 196

They have the best solar panel technology. Sidney, though the SPWR technology seems to be more efficient than competing photovoltaics, how would you compare it to the technology of AstroPower, which is now part of General Electric? AstroPower several years ago developed a technology for producing crystaline silicon photovoltaic panels in sheet form, allowing much larger units and less wiring than is the case with individual cells. Even though crystaline silicon is slightly less efficient than SunPower's technology, wouldn't the sheet form of AstroPower's cells be less expensive than SunPower? Art Bechhoefer