And those cheap boxes increasingly rival more expensiveSun servers and IBM mainframes with each new version of Microsoft's operating system or Linux clustering software.
But building solar cells, the devices that convert photons from the sun into streams of electrons and electricity, is complex, expensive magic to pull off--and has burned many entrepreneurs and investors in the past.
Problem is that the land of the rising sun has now become the the land of the rising yen which is making vehicles made in Japan more expensive for international customers.