Gospel = "good news".  And today I read even more good news for those interested in going green with Photo-Voltaic (PV) solar panels... It's one thing when you read one article on "better, cheaper" solar panels in our future, but this is the 4th article I've read in the last month about solar panel improvements.

Soliant (private sector):
http://www.technologyreview.com/Energy/18718/

"Its modules produce as much power as conventional flat panels but are less expensive, using 88 percent less silicon. The company's next-generation system would be even better, producing three times as much power per area."

More articles on solar panel improvements in the last month:

From MIT:
http://www.technologyreview.com/Energy/18415/

From Georgia Tech:
http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20070411/techbit-better-solar-panel.htm

From Rice University:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/05/070502143631.htm

Many of the above use similar techniques for gathering more solar energy from the spectrum of light given off by the sun.

Hopefully, at least one of these will be in full-scale production by the time we are ready to purchase our panels.

I'll post more links here as I come across them.