Solar panel prices to fall by up to 40% by year end

thank you for the post ,specific information will change the world , just like that.

Wow - that would be amazing. I am keeping my fingers crossed on this - and looking into investment markets.

awesome,,just great!!

Great I'll wait the extra months to buy. I hope the one I buy will still be in business later on ...as new technology develops.

I guess I need to find out where to get some of these now...I , Too, like the idea of using the Sun to COOL My home during Kansas Summers!

I know what's going on my roof this year!

It looks like some of what Ray Kurzweil was talking about.

http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/ray_kurzweil_on_how_technology_will_transform...

I, for one, want to see a national energy plan in congress that focuses most of our activity on making solar energy viable here and now. Something on the scale of the Marshal Plan that rebuilt Europe after the last World War. Solar Energy is our only true renewable source of energy. This has been and will always be true.

Let me see if I understand this.

In an effort to stem Global Warming, you are proposing that Americans cover large areas with a DARK surface.

That surface will not reflect heat back into space, it will absorb wavelengths of sunlight and produce Electricity.

That Electricity will be used to heat your homes and stoves etc since electricity is HOT by nature.

So all being said, You want to bring more heat into the picture in an effort to stop Global Warming.

Who will be the first to claim that the electricity will be used for Air Conditioning.

You let them convince you that their cause is just, and you throw common sense out the window to please.

Finally the solar-hydrogen thing will have some impetus to start growing. I was lucky enough to visit the first solar-hydrogen home in NJ not too long ago.

GREAT!!! They have always been so expensivs, but if they get down this low, I might be able to afford one!

This is fantastic. Jan I read many of your posts and you have provided me some great info on the dangers of "clean burning" coal. I recently read that the Obama team is going to tax green energy but I have not been able to find specifics. Have you heard this? DOes anyone know what he specifically wants to tax that is green?

this will kick ass. It's the last piece of the puzzle I need to be completely self reliant and not need the system for anything. I raise my own food I have my own wells and now if I can have electricity without needing the electric company I can tell the world to fuck off.

Consider that the future can and should be heading in a more positive alternative energy direction and away from fossil fuels because more and more people are waking up to the fact that we've been brainwashed out of our clean energy destiny for far too long now by the power of Big Oil... The smarter we get the cleaner and more energy efficient we'll be...thanks to legislators who care about what we the people want and need...a clean and eco-friendly environment...This cost reduction gets us that much closer and makes the technology much more appealing to the average individual...plus negates the sceptics...

I've always wanted solar panels. Even planned on building a passive solar salt box. Anything to get the energy that's right there, in front of your face..... sun what a lovely thing!

I could be a little crazy but aint this a good time to invest if you have the funds to do so I mean in the solar panel market not the stock market find who makes them and invest wait yea I guess you would have to buy in the stock market after all but you get my point right if you have the money to invest that would a good thing to invest in right

Great news!

FINALLY!

I've been waiting for this tipping point. This cannot happen soon enough...

Whoopeee!
This makes those panels look a whole lot better than they did!

if there was no money is the whole equasion, we would have had solor panels everywhere bye now.

It is going to be an awesome future, for those willing to embrace it.

We need PV solar panels on every rooftop here in Southern California. Imagine the electricity that would be generated that way. And the extra power would be available when it is needed most - hot days during sunshine hours.

I we also combine it with off shore and land based windpower farms, we'd gather all the energy needed. It's a matter of putting up enough facilities to capture all that free energy. The energy is there and will always remain free of charge and 100% clean.

It's a no brainer. The oil, gas, coal and nuclear industries can not compete on price per KW/h once all costs are factored in.

And it couldn't come too soon. Coal needed really "clean" competition to knock it out of the box. Now is our chance should this happen.