Posted by mudmuckgrease on July 15, 2015 at 19:06:23 from (67.142.162.20):
In Reply to: Re: solar power? posted by buickanddeere on July 15, 2015 at 17:05:57:
My panels are only about 15% efficient; in other words, given the area of each panel, only about 15% of what they can produce is converted to electrical current. If I were to buy new panels today, I could get them at 35% efficient - that is more than double what they use to be. That is the direction this technology is going. Today, storage is its greatest problem. Tomorrow, can be a completely different story - it all depends.
I was born and raised in California's Silicon Valley. My whole carrier was centered on the emergence of our information age. I saw the beginnings of a mass of relays grow to a palm sized device that can do things we could not have imagined back then. I know what a technology can do if grown in the right environment. Solar energy has a great deal of potential, but it all depends on what we want. What do we want to invest in - oil - solar? Solar doesn't work, you say? That situation can be ephemeral. The real problem with solar is that many of us have an invested interest in the oil industry. Solar is its competition. Computers didn't have that kind of competition. It doesn't take much imagination to see what could happen to the growth of solar technology.
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