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SloGlo:
littlebittime...now yinze wnat me to read? it took sew long to find somebuddy that could tak all this rightin stuff and put it into pictures fo me ;D
that said,...the conversation is pretty much all been related. however, iffen yinze im me expressing concern, i'll contact him 'n see iffen he'd be interested in conveying to you what he has heard.
rysics:
Another detractor from solar power; it takes more energy to manufacture a solar cell than it can ever produce. I read this while doing research in physics, I believe that it was in American Journal of Materiel Sciences but I have no clue what the date of publication was.
rysics
alphadude:
more to produce than output??? that dont seem logical.. the pay back on those units are 5 to 10 years. that cost included the cost to produce.(what u paid for it from the retailer) there would be no pay back if the cost was that high.. the thin film technology is somewhat different than the silicon technology-that was a high cost technology, and silicon technology never made it to market.(in great mass) I understand the pronuclear current here but dont let the desire to maintain a consumer life style cloud the logic of a fully integrated energy policy that would reduce the need for coal and nuke facilities by 40% in this country, which by the way could have been paid for with a few days cost of the Iraq field day.
rysics:
I agree with you fully Alphadude regarding an integrated energy infrastructure. The basis of my post was on the amount of energy required to produce a solar cell vs the amount of energy that a particular cell will produce in its lifetime. Regrettably this is a negative investment as far as energy is concerned right now. With futher research in this field I hope it will become viable, Material Science researchers are coming up with some fascinating and revolutionary ideas. I am in the process of changing careers and moving which precludes finding the paper that I referenced, but if i can find a few hours I'll poke around and let you know.
Cheers,
Rysics
alphadude:
the a-silicon types are basically history, colo state has a process which will reduce cost to $1 watt-pretty cheap stuff.(that will hit the market next year.) the major cost is mass production limitation-if factories geared up to stamp out solar the cost would drop dramatically-
remember 1/3 of the world is without electricity-and never have hopes of nuke (dont know if we want them to have it anyway) and little hope of fossil-no oil or coal, besides you gots to have da wire to get it there-solar is a hope of raising those up out of the dust.
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