Low-cost, high-output solar power unit

TOKYO, Japan - A man shows a low-cost solar power system developed by Smart Solar International, a start-up firm spun off from a University of Tokyo research center, at the university in Tokyo on May 9, 2011. Smart Solar International said it will begin making the system in June that year in Miyagi Prefecture, with an eye on selling it worldwide in the future.

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