[Van Jenerette]

...great progress!

[bd476]

This is very good news, Ernest.

[RightWhale]

Cost is the vital factor.

[Jedi Master Pikachu]

40% is very high.

[xcamel]

[Jedi Master Pikachu]

ping.

[patton]

Excellent news.

[Recon Dad]

Could someone put this into practical terms? Could we heat a home or charge a car or what and for how much?

[Robert A Cook PE]

Good news.

Not for everybody, not for all cases, but it is good news.

(Of course, the enviro libs will claim that now (immediately, right away) we can run a steel mill, a shipyard, and a powerplant (in Seattle, under the cloud cover, at night, during winter) from these things.....)

8<)

[PC99]

Gives me hope we can stop shipping so much money to the Middle Eastern despots and jihadists who vow to make us submit to them.

[dr_who_2]

The fine print from spectrolab's web site:

How does a concentrator system lower the cost of solar energy: Under 500-sun concentration, for example, one square centimeter of solar cell area produces the same electricity as 500 cm2 would without concentration. The use of concentration, therefore, enables the replacement of the more expensive semiconductor area with cheaper materials (e.g., lenses or mirrors). The use of concentration, however, requires that the module use a dual-axis tracking system, in addition to providing an efficient heat removal mechanism. Still, the savings in the semiconductor area and the higher output due to the use of the higher cell efficiency make the use of HCPV modules with MJ cells more economical.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Sounds good to me!

[G-Man 1]

Bet they would work good on the moon and mars.

[doug from upland]

We're getting there. Oh, until the day when we can collectively moon the Middle East.

[Uncledave]

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