Thursday, April 17, 2008

New $1Billion polysilicon plant in China

As reported in The Engineer, LDK solar is building a huge new polysilicon plant in Xinyu City, China. Polysilicon is the primary starting material for the production of solar photovoltaic cells. Hopefully, mass production on this sort of scale will lead to a reduction in the costs of PV arrays for power generation.

Just one little caveat. Please, please, please, don't handle the toxic waste materials such as silicon tetrachloride in the manner that other polysilicon plants in China appear to do.

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