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Nanosolar
- the world’s first printed thin-film solar cell in a commercial panel product;
- the world’s first thin-film solar cell with a low-cost back-contact capability;
- the world’s lowest-cost solar panel – which we believe will make us the first solar manufacturer capable of profitably selling solar panels at as little as $.99/Watt;
- the world’s highest-current thin-film solar panel – delivering five times the current of any other thin-film panel on the market today and thus simplifying system deployment;
Looks very promising— and this is exactly what I’ve been telling my mentally retarded lib-friends who keep braying that we should be giving money to dictators and feeble countries to offset our carbon use.
Screw that.
Technology fueled by a chugging economy solves real problems (and even fake ones).
$1 per watt —
what is the current cost per watt?
Market them in the market. When can we expect to see these products in the USA? East Germany, the sun doesn’t even shine there half the time.
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It's still pretty good. Look for homes in the Southwest to look at this first, since they get the most usable sunlight per year. Californians in particular could benefit from this since they have very high electric costs
Now we will see what the environmentalists have to say. Who wants to bet that they won't sue to ban solar panels from homes on some pretext, as soon as solar power becomes economically viable and significant numbers of people start installing panels?
What do you do at night?
Solar singles for the sunny side of every roof would do a lot to cut down A/C bills in the summer, besides taking the stress off transmission lines.
Imagine the Middle East with no US oil market. A comedy waiting to be written.