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Silicon Valley Startup Prints $1/watt Solar Panels
GWBasic writes "A Silicon Valley start-up called Nanosolar has shipped its first solar panels — priced at $1 a watt. That's the price at which solar energy gets cheaper than coal. While other companies have been focusing their efforts on increasing the efficiency of solar panels, Nanosolar took a different approach. It focused on manufacturing. 'The company [has developed] a process to print solar cells made out of CIGS, or copper indium gallium selenide, a combination of elements that many companies are pursuing as an alternative to silicon.'" The outfit also happens to be backed by Google, a fact that's getting some attention at tech media sites.
I love this shit. I knew the kooks would come out in force when I wrote that. I'm so amused by the lunacy.
By the way, I'm a pilot, Aerospace Engineer, and Computer Science Engineer. I'm well educated on the environment, weather patterns and changes. I was watching this long before it was a political issue. Don't try to educate me on the science you incompetent, ignorant sheep. You would do well to step away from your little moment in time where you're all caught up in todays fad and actually look at the science and the trend data.
You should also consider data from before the industrial era where mankind was not the cause. The temperature swing was more dramatic. Mankind is not the cause now either. How do you explain the cooling trend in the 70s? You guys are the same tossers who were out there in the 70s claiming the Ice Age was coming, the same alarmists who were warning that everyone would soon burn up because of the ozone hole (which is now smaller, but the hole has always been there) in the 80s, the same losers who warned of the earth overcrowding in the 90s and you're the same zealots who think the Earth is on the brink of disaster if global temperatures rise.
I've got some news for you, Global temperatures can rise quite a bit, and they have in the past and mankind was fine and will continue to be fine. The only way I won't maintain my modest lifestyle is if you dicks take it away with your misplaced lobbying for more oppressive government.
I'm not going to convince you of anything. I know that. But remember this: This fad will pass like all the others. You will be forgotten. There will be some other fad that comes along. Perhaps at that time you'll be a little more open to the realization that there's more to science than politics. I know that because I've participated in science for so long. I'm sorry if I can't buy into this nonsense. Live your life and be happy. Stop worrying about trends that come and go. If you're truly interested in science then study it. Otherwise stay with politics, that way you don't have to prove *anything*.
I love how these coal plants are all Bush's fault when 100% of them existed for 100% of the Clinton administration (you know, the one with that "genius" Al Gore as vice president). I find it amusing that they were great and wonderful as long as Clinton was in office, but the moment Bush took over they started destroying the world and its ALL HIS FAULT.
AntiFA: An abbreviation for Anti First Amendment.