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Breakthrough in solar photovoltaics
An anonymous reader writes "The Holy Grail of researchers in the field of solar photovoltaic (SPV) electricity is to generate it at a lower cost than that of grid electricity. The goal now seems to be within reach.
A Palo Alto (California ) start-up, named Nanosolar Inc., founded in 2002, claims that it has developed a commercial scale technology that can deliver solar electricity at 5 cents per kilowatt-hour. " As always, take these claims with a dose of salt the size of the Hope Diamond.
fr0st p1ss?
... "from the dept."? ... grr ...
and, what is with the dept?
ESR studied the document in his hand with interest. His brow, furrowed into numerous crap lines, was covered by his sweaty red forlock. His hands shook. He mouthed the words "hoooh boy" silently as he began a steady hyperventilation. Finally, after waiting for weeks and weeks, he had what he'd gone to sleep thinking about every night: the first ossue of SCAT!, the magazine for poop fanatics everywhere, had fianlly hit the stands. Eric's heart burst with pride, as he had taken the last of his money made when VA Linux^H^H^H^H^HSoftware had gone public and invested in this private project of the Slashdot staff.
Running quickly to the back bedroom of his one-story shanty (and being careful not to trip on the heavy 386 PC cases or the myriad of cables, cords, dongles, and wires running in various directions across his dirt floor), Eric slammed the door and laid stomach-down on the bed. He opened to the boilerplate and read his pal's names with delights, kicking his feet back and forth against each other. He couldn't believe his dream had come true! But just as he was about to flip to the pictorial section (to examine how the GIMP performed at the cropping and scaling, of course) the phone rang. It was Jon Katz.
"ESR, you sunnuvvabitch! Where the Hell is my story? You promised me you'd publish my story in your God-damned worthless shit-fag mag! You doulbe-crossing--"
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With a strangling, gurgling scream from Katz, ESR hung up the phone and sighed. He scratched his beer belly and thirsted for Jägermeister. Why did people always harass him? From RMS calling and reminding Eric that he was not a good a programmer as he, or Larry Augustin calling emailing death threats regarding petty cash theft from VA's offices after Eric's visits, or the trolls on Slashdot writing about his and his friends' personal lives, the Jäger was his only release. Perhaps after a few fifths of it he'd be calm enough again to dive back into his magazine.
Waking up hours later, ESR realized he'd drank too much (again) and had slept away... Well, what had he slept away? He couldn't even remember what time it was when he'd woken up or fallen asleep last. Between the early Winter Pennsylvania nights and his "hacker's" schedule it was so hard to keep track of what time of day, week, or month it was he might as well have been living in a cave. He remembered when he was, though, and thought warmly of his shanty-- built by hand from 55 gallon drums harvested from his local landfill. Over the drums ESR had filled clay, mixed from a nearby creek, and painted it brown to make it look like a log cabin. How proud he was indeed! Wouldn't you be?
ESR picked up the SCAT! magazine, unzipped his pants, and sat at his kitchen table-- humming with a cluster of 386s running Linux-- and enjoyed the rest of his freetime the way God intended: masturbating furiously to pictures of pale, skinny young men eating turds and smearing shit all over each other.
Why does nobody understand that the "taken with a grain of salt" expression means that it needs no flavor. It doesn't need salt. It's plenty salty as it is. You only need a grain. Get it? Duh, Slashdot.
Slashdot: 24 hours behind every other site or your money back!
Nothing to see here citizens... move along...
Ah well, yes the very important technical details are screwed up. Can't we find some more reputable source than a news outlet in India? Maybe the lack of attention to detail and quality control in this news piece indicates that it is a product of the Indian Contract Programming Industry.
Go ahead, jump off a building.
That wouldn't work. You gotta factor the price of the environmental problems the Solar Power Plant will cause.
Someone will setup one up in California and it'll cast a shadow on an ant hill of a protected species of ant, or the solar films will be too warm for birs to sit on them... - that'll be enough to sue them and pull the plug
It's CA, you know - there are tons of environmentalists around and one of them will find a problem with the power plant.
Whenever I see Trek info posted as established fact, I'm always reminded of when Shatner was on SNL:
"Having received all your letters over the years, and I've spoken to many of you, and some of you have traveled... y'know... hundreds of miles to be here, I'd just like to say...GET A LIFE, will you people? I mean, for crying out loud, it's just a TV show! I mean, look at you, look at the way you're dressed! You've turned an enjoyable little job, that I did as a lark for a few years, into a COLOSSAL WASTE OF TIME!"
Nuke Gay Whales for Jesus.
no no no you got it all wrong...
:P
NanoSolar, Inc has been found by greenpeace and siara club to be a polluter; the substances used in the production of thier new solar panal material when feed to lab rats at 10000 times the expected dose will get cancer 2% of the time and we must keep this stuff out of the ground water and it causes global warming and is radioactive and it messes with the global spirits of Gea and it will destablize developing nations by making poor people wealthy and global population will double becouse people will stop starving and dieing from milaria and the flu.....
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