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#57 – Greg Nemet on Technological Change and How Solar Became Cheap

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The Fundamental Understanding of Light Interacts With Semiconductors

I think there's this fundamental understanding of how light interacts with semiconductors that allowed a lot of things to happen. It also helped that that is a material that we know really well from the computer industry. So if you do have that fundamental understanding that we had a nuclear and we haven't solar, it does seem to enable growth to happen.

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