If space is an issue I could see the efficiency rating being important, but in most cases the cost per watt is the most important element. Especially for utility scale solar projects.
I'd say a 70% drop in prices over 5 years is quite a "trickle" of progress. The number of new solar installations is growing at an almost parabolic rate. Take a look,
The US has installed in a single quarter, in both 2011 and 2012, what took an entire year to install back in 2010. I think you aren't giving solar proper credit.
The price has fallen that much. DMsolar for instance sells panels as low as $0.82 per watt, and sells panels with grid tie systems as low as $1.63 per watt. The only other costs are labor and code compliance costs.
Or maybe you were just an easy target and in response you had to justify this somehow. So you make up these head games about how those who wronged you "instinctively knew you were superior" so you can maintain YOUR ego.
When really you were just an easy target in the wrong place and the wrong time; nothing more
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Those are very outdated prices
http://www.dmsolar.com/solar-module-1141.html
Now that would be a scary product to beta test
According to the Datalinks; Not until we research "Doctrine: Air Power" and "Neural Grafting"
Maybe you should get whatever you took analyzed by one of these labs?
If space is an issue I could see the efficiency rating being important, but in most cases the cost per watt is the most important element. Especially for utility scale solar projects.
I'd say a 70% drop in prices over 5 years is quite a "trickle" of progress. The number of new solar installations is growing at an almost parabolic rate. Take a look,
http://www.seia.org/sites/default/files/2012q3-PV-Installations-by-Market-Segment2.gif
The US has installed in a single quarter, in both 2011 and 2012, what took an entire year to install back in 2010. I think you aren't giving solar proper credit.
$17K for a 3 Kilowatt system? Those are very old prices. Here's a 5.75 Kilowatt system advertised at only $9300
http://www.dmsolar.com/spbuy5grwien.html
What sized installation would that have been? That quote looks ridiculously high
The price has fallen that much. DMsolar for instance sells panels as low as $0.82 per watt, and sells panels with grid tie systems as low as $1.63 per watt. The only other costs are labor and code compliance costs.
The price of solar is truly falling like a rock
http://www.dmsolar.com/solar-module-1141.html
Washington state actually has a quite generous solar subsidy program. So buying solar panels in Seattle is actually a good deal
Have faith that there are so many stupid people in so many positions that they kinda cancel each other out most of the time
First you launch nukes at the moon to judge how well they work in space warfare. Later you build a base there which can launch nukes of its own.
The things they'll sacrifice...
I believe most individuals wouldn't pay any tax at all if there were no punitive response from the government for not doing so
If those deductions were worth billions of dollars to you; do you believe that you would have the same attitude?
Why would you expect a company to pay more than they have to when individuals do not?
Commie? Can't say
At the very least I'd imagine it makes you a poor tax account though
This never stopped the word Republican from changing meaning
So you failed a class and blamed it on an arbitrary disagreement with your teacher?
Hahaha, good one
Or maybe it's a clever trap to piss off and waste the energy of so called "smart people" who can't get over it
Maybe Chemisor should learn some better social skills rather than complain about other people.
Or maybe you were just an easy target and in response you had to justify this somehow. So you make up these head games about how those who wronged you "instinctively knew you were superior" so you can maintain YOUR ego.
When really you were just an easy target in the wrong place and the wrong time; nothing more
You're just too cool for school
Ummmm *checks the list*
'This is not funny. This is bullying. This is wrong.'