07-14-2009, 02:04 PM
This item (sorry it is in dutch, maybe you can use some translation program....the reason I add this link is only to show I am not making things up:) )
Anyway, this guy is telling the things I have also been saying on this site recently.
The fact that large scale use of solar energy in houses is not an if, but a when. In a few years electricity made this way will be cheaper than the electricity from conventional power plants.
He also predicts that the crystalline silicon cells will likely not be used anymore in 2030, because of the availability of much cheaper alternatives. The only thing now is some political goodwill (not like the dutch government that decides to subsidize people that want to put solar cells on their roof and then take months and months more (so after summer has finished) to tell people if their request for subsidy is granted).
In the years (I wrote a literature report about organic solar cells chemistry for my graduatian in 1999) I have always wondered why people always were so negative about the costs of solar power electricity. Every new technique or consumer gadget start off costing a lot (what did you pay for your first 2.1 Mpix digital camera??) but in just 10 years you pay a quarter for something that is 10 times as good. So of course the same will happen will photovoltaic cells.
Anyway, this guy is telling the things I have also been saying on this site recently.
The fact that large scale use of solar energy in houses is not an if, but a when. In a few years electricity made this way will be cheaper than the electricity from conventional power plants.
He also predicts that the crystalline silicon cells will likely not be used anymore in 2030, because of the availability of much cheaper alternatives. The only thing now is some political goodwill (not like the dutch government that decides to subsidize people that want to put solar cells on their roof and then take months and months more (so after summer has finished) to tell people if their request for subsidy is granted).
In the years (I wrote a literature report about organic solar cells chemistry for my graduatian in 1999) I have always wondered why people always were so negative about the costs of solar power electricity. Every new technique or consumer gadget start off costing a lot (what did you pay for your first 2.1 Mpix digital camera??) but in just 10 years you pay a quarter for something that is 10 times as good. So of course the same will happen will photovoltaic cells.