2012-02-05, Solar Energy in the Collapsing Silicon Price Environment

Solar panel prices keep halving. If they do that often enough you'll see 'em everywhere soon. 

India's panel price crash could spark solar revolution - environment - 02 February 2012 - New Scient

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Solar power has long had a reputation for being expensive, but the falling costs of making panels could change that

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    Chuck Oates While we're at it, how 'bout electrically powered cars? Still a rocky road, apparently ... http://bit.ly/xuyANR

    

    

    How the Stimulus Revived the Electric Car - ProPublica

    

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    The Obama administration helped build an American electric car and battery industry. The question is: Will it last? From ProPublica reporter Michael Grabell's new book on the stimulus, Money Well Spent?

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    Chuck Oates Waddaya do if you're a thin-film (CIGS or CdTe) solar panel manufacturer and the price of traditional silicon solar panels goes through the floor? If you're Solyndra, you go out of business taking $1 billion and a big U.S. Federal Government loan guarantee with you.
    
    See "Setting the record straight on Solyndra," in this article, about half way down the page: http://bit.ly/AajzKE

    

     for the complete story, not widely available in the sound-bite media.

    

    Solar | Lux Populi

    

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    In early December, we attended the Fourth Thin Film Summit USA in San Francisco, where we heard an interesting company presentation from Brian Stone at Nanosolar – a noteworthy venture-backed copper indium gallium diselenide (CIGS) module producer. After raising nearly $400 million prior to 2009, th...