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Another message from our friend Bill Brown at NMGlobalWarming.org up in Taos, New Mexico.

Greetings, All -- The solar power industry is rapidly pushing toward economic parity with old technology fossil fuel power. SUNRGI of Silicon Valley, California is promising -- perhaps with slightly excess optimism -- economically competitive solar photovoltaic power by 2009. The solar power industry as a whole is looking at economic parity by 2010 to 2015. OPEC yesterday was looking at $200-per-barrel oil in the very near future, which would represent a price increase since 1999 of 1,000 percent (that is one thousand percent over the global $20 per barrel oil price in 1999).

Place your bets now on where the world should be heading in terms of a new clean energy economy.

-- Bill Brown
www.nmglobalwarning.org

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8 responses // Start-up: affordable solar power possible in a year

  • exciting!
    Binarysunset
  • Excellent!
    twodee
  • I see the article doesn't say how much for "Affordable" solar power.
    ivxx
  • a brave new world is looming for us! this is great news we can use.
    jimmyp
  • Yeah. What does affordable mean?
    jabutle3
  • honestly, i don't understand why people don't get that solar power is the way to go? its virtually a one time upfront fee that nets you free energy forever.
    the only additional cost i can think of would be for maintenance, but most of the new photo voltaics are flexible & damn near indestructible.

    what business or family wouldn't benefit from not having an electric bill???
    blackdaylight
  • got that right blackdaylight. Nothin really to think about. Hey, plants have been doing forever....love those little green solar panels.
    twodee
  • I love solar, but the equipment needed is still too expensive to make sense where I live (in Norway), so I am always keen to read about the technical advances in this field.

    Unfortunately the angle of the sun is not optimal and the winters are to long and dark where I live (in the middle of Norway), plus the angle of our roof and the surroundings are not ideally placed, making the solar panels pretty ineffective. There has to be a huge drop in price if is going to break even in the equipments lifespan (approx 20 years for solar panels I believe?).

    Solar collectors for heating air and water are a little cheaper to buy it seems, and ALOT cheaper to make, so I am looking into that, until prices for photovoltaics drop some more.

    By the way, I had an idea people might like, if you love solar but have the same problem with location as me, and that is to start a photovoltaic "hotels", where you pay for the pv array, but it is installed somewhere else, where the sun conditions are better, and where one could share the cost of grid connection etc. There would probably be no need for storage, god knows I use enough electricity to spend every watt the solar panel produce in real time, and each solar panel owner gets access to their meter online, to see how much energy they have produced. Cool?
    mskogly

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