New ‘Rock Candy’ Process To Manufacture Silicon Could Make Solar Power Even Cheaper

New ‘Rock Candy’ Process To Manufacture Silicon Could Make Solar Power Even Cheaper: By Tina Casey Via Clean Technica Researchers at the University of Michigan have come up with a low-cost way to manufacture high-grade silicon, based on a concept familiar to anyone who has tried to make rock candy at home. If the breakthrough can be translated into a commercially viable process, it would make ultra-cheap solar [...]/p