“”I liked this Nanosolar article posted a day ago. For less than $10,000, I could cover my Arizona roof with this stuff, and be generating over $6K worth of electricity per year. Unlike Al Gore, I don’t use that much, so I could sell it back to the power company.
Technologies like this are going to make the oil sheikhs sorry they tried to sheikh us down.””
No! The oil sheiks are cognizant that crude oil represents about 40% of the world’s energy mix and that the demand for oil is still growing They are also aware that it will take 30 to 50 years to replace oil as a primary energy source so they have plenty of time to “soak” us. The fact of the matter is they have us over a barrel and aren’t worried about a bunch of “alternatives” that require lots of oil to build.
In regards to solar panels, make sure that there are ample supplies of the doping agents before you invest in companies that make those things...because there simply is not enough germanium, gallium, and other metals to produce those doping agents.
"What makes it also cheap are the materials used in its productions, being made of an Aluminum foil for stability, Molybdenum electrode, an ink made of indium, copper, selenium and gallium, a semiconductor that doesnt absorb light and a clear Zinc oxide semiconductor."
My engineer brother has suggested that Nanosolar and similar sheet-based solar technologies may be a reason that the price of molybdenum has gone up by a factor of 10 over the past year.