With many companies implementing carbon neutral policies for their operations worldwide, this development from IBM is good news. To offset their carbon footprint, companies are installing solar panels in their facilities to generate electricity and heating.
IBM to recycle silicon wafers for solar industry – reuters.com: IBM said on Tuesday it has developed a silicon wafer recycling system that may help ease the refined silicon shortage that has limited output of solar energy panels.
IBM said it can remove intellectual property from discarded scrap semiconductor wafers made out of silicon. It can then sell them to the solar industry which uses the silicon in photovoltaic cells that generate electricity on rooftops.
Awesome. good job IBM
Anything that gets solar cheaper is double plus good in my book.
“IBM said it can remove intellectual property from discarded scrap semiconductor wafers made out of silicon.” The ancient Egyptians removed intellectual property from scrap carbon-units. They removed the brain (through the nose, if anybody wants to know) and discarded it before mummifying the body. It’s good to see the technological progression from Carbon to Silicon in only 5,000 years.
“BM said it can remove intellectual property from discarded scrap semiconductor wafers made out of silicon.”
And then they will add their own intellectual property rights to the discarded scrap semiconductor wafers.
US ideas, makes for Mexico/China/India Jobs…
GOOD job IBM
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