We'll know soon enough, if we see the envirowhacks start protesting it. They just love "alternative energy sources", at least until someone announces a way to actually make them feasible. Then, they suddenly discover all kinds of "problems" with them.
Wind power was just wonderful to the eco-nuts, until people announced they were actually going to build windmills. Now, all we hear from them is how windmills cost too much, kill too many birds, "just won't work!" and will spoil Ted Kennedy's view when he's out on his yacht.
I wonder what the excuse for large scale solar cell production will be? I'm guessing whining about the "impacts" from mining the copper and other materials, "pollution" and greenhouse gas emissions and maybe even water use from the manufacturing process, and of course the usual hard-headed liberal "pragmatism" that is applied to missile defense and racila profiling ("It just doesn't work!").
Eco-whacks and other liberals don't want "alternative energy" - they want "no energy for you, and all for me." These people won't be happy until we're all sitting in the dark, freezing or sweating as the season dictates, tending our tiny little subsistence plots of soybeans, while they sit on their redwood decks with chilled wine and brie, congratulating themselves for how much they "care."
With an acronym like "CIGS", they (and the anti-tobacco folks) will be all over it.
That's exactly right. Die hard liberals really want to end capitalism and our way of life. They envision a utopia where we all live together in peace and harmony. Unfortunately man is man and it will end up just as you envision it.
Interestingly enough, Hooker Chemicals & Plastics made (still makes?) components for solar heaters back in the 1970’s .
If you remember they were responsible for a little thing called Love Canal.
So solar power has already caused more Environmental damage here in America than Nuclear has
and of course the usual hard-headed liberal "pragmatism" hat is applied to missile defense and racila profiling ("It just doesn't work!").
Quite the opposite, Liberals love solar because it makes them feel soooo good even though it doesn't work.