Thin-Film Technology Could Be Seriously Clobbering Fossil Fuels in 10 Years
But the harsh reality of our current state of PV (photovoltaic) technology, a reality that not many choose to acknowledge, is that without government subsides, solar power just doesn
’t pay for itself in any timely way—certainly not the kind of way that would make the profit-minded jump. But that may only be because our days of silicon-based solar
Tags: Green Power, PV, solar, Thin-Film Technology
September 27th, 2008 at 4:47 pm
Neither, evidently, does farming, banking, pumping oil, or building cars to burn it pay without government subsides, what is your point? Mine is that without government subsides we would have all we need, the subsides only support the monopolies and speculators who like to see us fight over what is left.
Aside from the politics, it appears that the DepotEco mothership has a grid-tied PV system that has a realistic payback schedule and the likelihood of operating for sometime after that. Of course it would be nice if even ten percent of the trade show hype came to fruition as promised, but let’s face it, we are the Windows Service Pack generation.
September 30th, 2008 at 2:10 am
Isn’t Tom the commentator. More on topic: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYJe12X6T50
September 30th, 2008 at 2:18 am
http://www.thinfilmtoday.com/us/
trade show dec. 2-3, 2008 San Francisco
September 30th, 2008 at 8:41 pm
It seems there is a down side to thin film.
http://earth2tech.com/2008/09/25/cadmium-the-dark-side-of-thin-film/
September 30th, 2008 at 9:03 pm
Uh Oh! here comes the money, here comes the money. Wait, did this bill survive the last week? It would be nice to give new-friendly tech a boost. What if we didn’t give the $700,000,000,000 to the lenders but just spread it out among the new technology developers? It is the people out in their barns inventing things that will make us independent, not bankers and politicians.
http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/apwire/00397fbf47eb5e8469f80ff03e3d184f.htm
September 30th, 2008 at 9:07 pm
“Moore’s Law” for PV
http://www.solid-state.com/display_article/340242/5/none/none/APPLI/PV%27s-%22Moore%27s-Law%22-required-to-drive-increased-material-efficienc
September 30th, 2008 at 9:28 pm
this guy says thin film powered generating plants are popping up all over. What isn’t clear is; if these are more “forward looking” announcements, let contracts, or installed and working equipment? Have they got them now or what?
http://www.csemag.com/article/CA6595875.html