Nanosolar's Breakthrough - Solar Now Cheaper than Coal!

[centralpabiofuel]

Originally Posted by styger

Good. Private corporations are the ones that should be spending money on renewable energy research, not the federal government.

Could you please explain your stance? Why should the federal government not be interested in this? This is one of the biggest, if not the biggest problem in the US. If we had all the sustainable energy that we needed would we be spending trillions in Iraq?

But we are spending trillions in Iraq, and that's why I don't think the government are the best people to be investing in this technology. Half of the time they don't seem to have a clue what they're doing.

[LMagic007]

Originally Posted by styger

But we are spending trillions in Iraq, and that's why I don't think the government are the best people to be investing in this technology. Half of the time they don't seem to have a clue what they're doing.

Sorry but that argument has no observably rational basis and well I wont say to be polite. In any event the government is investing the least amount of money in renewable technology compared to private industry. Government are offering incentives to private industry because we can't afford to wait for the perfect economic model to prompt private industry to act on its own. The issues are far too serious to delay renewable energy technology rollout.

Government thus has a responsibility to ensure that the conditions are such that private industry is motivated into action sooner rather than later. And finally as I have already indicated, fossil fuel based industry has been subsidised for decades at the expense of future greenhouse abatement costs, to be borne by future generations. If you cant get your head around that, then I do wonder if you need to research the matter further.

“Nanosolar CEO Martin Roscheisen tells us that the company has reached that goal with production at its San Jose, Calif., manufacturing facility. We’re not sure to what extent production is being done, but Roscheisen says there will be more info coming soon. The fact that Nanosolar is producing on schedule is a big step for the thin-film solar industry, as many thin-film companies have faced setbacks and delays.“

http://earth2tech.com/2007/12/12/nan...el-production/

[bruce]

Well-financed solar start-up Nanosolar on Tuesday said it has started shipping its flexible thin-film solar cells, meeting its own deadline and marking a milestone for alternative solar-cell materials.

http://www.news.com/8301-11128_3-983...ml?tag=cd.blog

Great news!

Originally Posted by bruce

Well-financed solar start-up Nanosolar on Tuesday said it has started shipping its flexible thin-film solar cells, meeting its own deadline and marking a milestone for alternative solar-cell materials.

http://www.news.com/8301-11128_3-983...ml?tag=cd.blog

Great news!

Awesome news

[Andy]

They're supposed to be able to produce it at $.3 per watt once production increases. We may be able to buy at $.75 per watt before the next decade.

[Andy]

From the horses mouth.

http://www.nanosolar.com/blog3/2007/...-first-panels/

I would think that the first customer for this product would be the factories where the product is being produced. If these panels can produce electricity cheaper than coal than the best incentive to buy would be that they are reducing the cost of manufacturing them in the first place. The best demonstration of these panels would be producing power to manufacture future panels.

[bruce]

Originally Posted by shutit

I would think that the first customer for this product would be the factories where the product is being produced. If these panels can produce electricity cheaper than coal than the best incentive to buy would be that they are reducing the cost of manufacturing them in the first place. The best demonstration of these panels would be producing power to manufacture future panels.

That would be pretty smart. Your right that would be great advertising for them to put it up on their own factory. It shows a lot of confidence in their product.