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Solar Factories: Big or Small?

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Should factories be big or small? It depends what you are making.Some execs like Charlie Gay at Applied Materials have advocatedsupersizing cell manufacturing facilities. To cut costs and gaineconomies of scale, they argue that the thing to do is build cellfacilities that produce over a gigawatt of cells a year and consumenearly a ton of [...]