The cost of solar panels has dropped by 80 percent and the cost of wind turbines by close to one-third in the past eight years.
在过去八年中，太阳能板的成本下降了80%，风力涡轮机的成本下降了近三分之一。
Automatic doors often open to the side, with the panels sliding across one another.
自动门通常向一侧开启，面板相互滑动。
Solar panels had a few niche uses until they became cheap; now they are transforming the global energy system.
太阳能板在变得便宜之前只有少数利基用途；如今它们正在改变全球能源系统。
One of the past winners, Professor Martin Green from the University of New South Wales, Australia, is the inventor of the Passivated Emitter and Rear Cell technology which is now found in most of the world's solar panels.
过去的一位获奖者，来自澳大利亚新南威尔士大学的马丁·格林教授，是钝化发射极和背面电池（Passivated Emitter and Rear Cell）技术的发明者，这种技术现在被世界上大多数太阳能板所采用。
例句取自历年考研英语真题，翻译为机器生成，仅供学习参考。