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Norm:
--- Quote from: MadScientist267 on November 02, 2012, 03:04:20 pm ---Certainly is. The technology to do all this and make it a reality is all there, just gotta get it to happen! ;)
Second, power density. People want to live their lives the way they always have; Spongebob on the tube, while the kids could care less and are outside chasing each other around the yard, among many other equally power wasting "uses".
Steve
--- End quote ---
yep...got that right !
example ....
My teenage grand daughter....lap top running, listening to music thru the computer. with
earphones on typing the great american novel about some hero teenagers solving
crime mysterys, no evidence of parents to watch them usually their parents have either
died or divorced ...none of these kids have a job....but they are well off ....unlimited
income from their uncle/aunt willing them fabulous fortunes......
meanwhile grand daughter is also watching TV with closed captions as she can't hear
what's on TV as she watches "1000 and One Ways to Die ".....as she sits in a dark
corner of the whole couch ....sunlight streaming in the window glaring.....but you can't
turn off the energy saving 24 watt CFL ....she wouldn't be able to see the lit computer
screen.....besides " it's weird to have the light off".....somehow none of this makes
sense to me !
...but the wife says....."all the kids are like that"
.......Oh well ?
Norm.
WooferHound:
Record Solar cell efficiency of 20.4% achieved
http://www.empa.ch/plugin/template/empa/3/131438/---/l=2
bj:
Hopefully it will make the jump to production. Should be cheaper to produce, but time will tell.
WooferHound:
Harvard's Clean Energy Project (CEP) plans to release to solar power developers a list of the top 20,000 organic compounds that could be used to make cheap, printable photovoltaic cells (PVCs).
The list, culled from about seven million organic molecules that a crowdsourcing-style project has been crunching over the past two-plus years, could lead to PVCs that cost about as much as paint to cover a one-meter square wall.
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9238429/Harvard_global_grid_computing_project_will_help_create_printable_solar_cells
tomw:
At least the technology & info is not hidden in some patent quagmire by an energy conglomerate [yet].
I imagine pole sheds with power panel siding. Who cares if the watts / area is low if you can paint a few thousand square feet cheap?
T
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