Invented in USA, green jobs produced in India and China .... Just saying...
is that plastic made from oil?
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Thanks for posting this article.
I'm about 90% certain that I've seen this headline every single year since 1975.
Solar energy doesn’t make any sense at all at its current price. Why invest 10-20+ thousand dollars (AFTER rebates and other incentives) in a house whose value is likely to continue falling and when you won’t break even on that investment for something like 8-10 years? My husband has customers who want to go solar, but unless they have major “green guilt” and plenty of money, it’s a hard sell. The other market is people who want to go completely off the grid, but that’s a small market. I’d love to see solar become more affordable.
Were using up all the sun, save the sun tax. /s
It is a long way from lab to market. Promising yes and I’d be happy to see it hit the market but I’m not holding my breath.
I think they made a technical error in the story. There is a big difference between capturing light, which it does quite efficiently, and converting it to electricity.
“So why the fuss, if these devices are no more efficient than what went before? The key is that although these cells are merely as efficient as conventional devices, they use only about a hundredth of the (silicon) material.” Pure silicon is extremely expensive.
It’s important to realize that solar energy is having several different breakthroughs, each of which contribute a great deal to their viability as a producer of useful electricity.
Here is another, this time from M.I.T.
http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2008/oxygen-0731.html
This uses the equivalent of synthetic photosynthesis during the day, to split water into hydrogen and oxygen, which can be recombined for energy at night. Likewise overcoming a major problem of solar cells.
Importantly, this may be more important in producing those two gases than it is using them to make electricity. Raw oxygen, one of the two gases, is a great *alternative* sanitizer and cleaner to chlorine.
Already the US Olympic team purifies their practice pool by bubbling oxygen through it, instead of chlorine. Chlorine is very expensive and toxic. Oxygen, created this way, is not.
So, every little breakthrough helps across the board.
It doesn’t really matter how “cheap” it gets, because:
IT IS INEFFICIENT!!!!!!
The Libtard’s and DiFi shut down a 500MW plant in the desert, because of the “ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT”!!!
These clowns don’t want a solution!!!!
Solar panels can lure aquatic insects to their doom by mimicking the appearance of water.
Large solar arrays in the desert could have particularly far-reaching effects on insects and the animals that feed on them.
Heavens...what’s a lib to do?