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Cool, also saw Professor Maldonado talk about this on "Saturday Morning Physics": http://www.lsa.umich.edu/vgn-ext-templating/v/index.jsp?vgnextoid=4a609c8d35b

• jacobolus 15y ago
  Thanks, that was a really great talk for non-specialists. I’ll definitely pass it along to family and friends. The one bit that was sort of unconvincing was when he argued that if we create an exponentially growing photovoltaic industry it will (implication: indefinitely) take more energy to build than it provides. But it’s silly to assume the exponential growth to be unbounded: the whole idea is that once we build enough capacity, we can stop making more of the things and after a few years we get energy coming out without so much further (energy/money) investment. He made it sound like building photovoltaics at scale would be overall detrimental. Other than that though, really excellent introductory background to put papers like this current one in context.
• cicatriz 15y ago
  Nocera is a pretty good (funny) speaker too. Talk from Jan 11 http://youtu.be/D3HNrAGWoAI http://youtu.be/D3HNrAGWoAI