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Article: Solar's bright prospects turn on Southland firms. (solar power)
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- Los Angeles Business Journal
- Article date:
- December 26, 1994
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Solar power may yet see sunny days in the United States, and wide open horizons around the world, if the blue-sky plans of several Southland makers of solar cells or systems come to light.
At the core of new optimism in solar power: cheaper ways to make solar panels, and the burgeoning costs of building whole new power plants.
"With our current, lowered costs, there are now a tremendous number of applications for solar power," says David Roubideaux, operations manager at Torrance-based Amonix Inc., a maker of solar power systems. "We won't replace fossil fuels, but we will be an adjunct."
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