This is the dawning of the age of Solar power. The price of solar cells has falled by 50% in the last year. This means it is more cost effective to install solar cells on residential houses, to deliver electricity directly to homes,... than to build huge corporate solar thermal farms to boil water, to then spin a turbine, to make electricity to then pipe it 400 miles to homes, causing a loss of 40% of the power in transmission. The days of corporate controlled electricity are OVER! This is the great fear now haunting the banks. Just like Henry Ford caused a revolution when he mass produced cars so too now has China produced a new revolution in SOLAR cells mass production. We must embrace the Chinese improvement of the quantity of solar cells available to all the People of the world.
In the News:
Energy battles set to rage into 2012 The Hill (blog) Top Republicans on the House Energy and Commerce Committee say they will broaden their investigation in the coming months to include other green energy loan guarantees. Nuclear safety: The March disaster at Japan's Fukushima Daiichi power plant has ... and more » |
Sponsored by FLSmidth Power Engineering Magazine If it is linked back to the grid and the return to the entity generating solar power is done on a 1:1 basis, it has started making economic sense already, at around Rs8 a unit. But there is now a midway number, closer to the lower end, for people who ... and more » |
Fukushima Happened. Now What? Energy Collective Since building wind turbines, solar arrays and digging geothermal wells will provide a potentially large, but completely unpredictable quantity of energy, often sourced from remote areas, we will also have to pay, through electric power rates or ... and more » |
In role reversal, US on track to be an oil exporter msnbc.com "warm" is subjective, the level of energy in a system is not) How is it that we are even having this discussion without the end being "...the revenue from which will be used to remove our reliance on the burning of dead plants and animals to power our ... and more » |
Steve Scauzillo: Oil pipeline beats more nuclear power plants Whittier Daily News But solar and wind will not be enough. That's why the Keystone Pipeline project - which is oil from a friendly country - may be the preferred alternative. At the very least, it would be better than building more nuclear power plants. ... and more » |
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