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Are we really falling for this again? How many times do we have to go through this. Ignore all articles regarding solar breakthroughs unless: 1) they have a
by xutopia 13y ago
Are we really falling for this again? How many times do we have to go through this.
Ignore all articles regarding solar breakthroughs unless:
1) they have a sticker price on their web site, for sale immediately
2) they don't need investments to get a business off the ground
3) they have links to all research and patents that capture what the breakthrough is all about.
- DanielBMarkham 13y agoI agree this is getting old. Enough with the solar power hype machine. Give it a break. Show me something with a "buy now" button or go home. Seriously, 20 or more articles in the last year? All with some incredible breakthrough? Enough already.
- SeanDav 13y agoI came here to post pretty much the same thing. If you believed the commercial success of all the solar panel breakthroughs we have been hearing about, then by now every solar panel would be the size of a postage stamp, be generating 12 KW of power by moonlight and they would have been giving away a free solar panel with every six-pack of beer...
- marvin 13y agoYou're ignoring that the cost of PV panels has fallen dramatically over the last couple of years. Absent someone inside the industry who can give a detailed explanation to what processes are behind this improvement ("Chinese subsidies" is in itself not a sufficient explanation), it is reasonable to assume that the huge amount of research breakthroughs in solar technology has something to do with it. So while it may be annoying to read about the 10th PV technology breakthrough of the year, there is no doubt that these breakthroughs have a real effect on the price and efficiency of solar panels. I think it's interesting to read about this.