October 17, 2008 1:37 PM PDT
MIT professor and 1366 Technologies Chief Technology Officer Ely Sachs and company President Frank van Mierlo at the ribbon-cutting of a pilot manufacturing plant in Lexington, Mass.
The company is trying to improve solar manufacturing to get the cost of solar electricity on par with coal-based electricity.
"The science is understood, the material abundant, the product works.
All that is left is to build the biggest manufacturing industry in the history of human kind. Time is a wasting," Sachs said during the opening event.
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Caption by Martin LaMonica
