CNET reported yesterday that Santa Clara, Calif.-based Innovalight says it has developed a somewhat contradictory-sounding process for creating crystalline solar panel silicon solar cells with liquid. If it works in mass production, it could slash the cost of making these solar panel solar cells by half or more, the solar company claims.

Innovalight essentially creates solar panel silicon nanoparticles, inserts them into a solvent, and pours the solar solvent on a solar substrate. The solar solvent is then solar extracted. What is left can sort of be analogized to a solar snowflake or a large solar sugar cube: a highly organized structure made up of tiny parts.

"We use this solar technique to make something that isn't much different from (traditional) crystalline silicon solar panels, except we get there cheaper," CEO Conrad Burke said. "They (the solar panel solar cells) end up in a pretty structured form."