Bill Gates has a multi-billion dollar fund called Breakthrough Energy Ventures, that invests in clean energy projects.
They’ve just handed USD$44 million to a company that has automated much of the solar panel production process, from the acquisition of land using cloud-based software, to the production of solar panels with machines and robots.
The intention is to speed up the scale of solar implementation – the engineering side of solar basically hasn’t changed much (their words), so they can give most of the heavy lifting jobs to robots and really speed things up.
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