Ariz. Team Seeks Fossil-Fuel Cost Parity, Using Solar Energy Concentrators

autospa writes "A University of Arizona engineering team led by Roger Angel has designed a new type of solar concentrator that uses half the area of solar (PV) cells used by other optical devices and delivers a light output/concentration that is over 1000 times more concentrated before it even hits the cells. This comes as a result of a broader goal to make solar energy cost competitive with fossil fuels (target = 1$/W) without the 'need for government subsidization.'"

Comments

Bullshit.

[Anonymous Coward]

I keep hearing this repeated as though it were a fact.

And yet, gas taxes keep coming out the wazoo.

For the end user, those subsidies don't exist.

Re:Bullshit.

[damn_registrars]

That's why at one point Obama claimed he was going to cut $36.5 billion in them.

You must have missed the memo. Let me remind you, you are writing on slashdot and are under no circumstances allowed to suggest that President Obama is a reasonable and/or intelligent human being. Furthermore in some crowds here you might not be allowed to even suggest that he is indeed a he or a human being.