From: Spike Jones (spike66@ibm.net)
Date: Sun Sep 03 2000 - 17:21:47 MDT
> > > hal@finney.org wrote: No, 1000 times greater. 36500 hours * .05 kW =
> > > 1825 kWH.
> >
> > Spike Jones wrote:At 11 cents per kWh, the panel generates over 200 bucks
> worth
> > of power. So now we just need the economies of scale to produce
> > m^2 panels for less than 200 clams.
>
> James Rogers wrote: You also have to take into consideration the cost of
> the rest of the
> infrastructure required to get power to your wall sockets 24/7 at standard
> operating voltages.
Ja. Solar power isnt going to be as easy and fun to use in many respects as
just
burning up fossil energy that comes outta the ground concentrated and free.
We need to work both sides of the problem: using power more efficiently
and gathering the diffuse energy coming to us real time from the sun. While
it is true that it is raining soup, the soup is thin indeed. spike
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