Oil Price and Solar Cell Patenting Trends

November 10th, 2008 by Don Scansen

Historical oil prices are plotted alongside applications for “solar cell” to the USPTO. It appears that the early seventies oil crisis spawned the photovoltaic industry but that no other price events have had a significant impact on photovoltaic research.

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