Re: ENERGY: State of the Art in Photovoltaics?

From: James Rogers (jamesr@best.com)
Date: Sun Sep 03 2000 - 10:35:01 MDT


On Sun, 03 Sep 2000, Spike Jones wrote:
> >
> > hal@finney.org wrote: No, 1000 times greater. 36500 hours * .05 kW =
> > 1825 kWH.
>
> At 11 cents per kWh, the panel generates over 200 bucks worth
> of power. So now we just need the economies of scale to produce
> m^2 panels for less than 200 clams.

You also have to take into consideration the cost of the rest of the
infrastructure required to get power to your wall sockets 24/7 at standard
operating voltages.

-James Rogers
 jamesr@best.com



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