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Solar power has something that has been proven to be an universial law for all manufacturing: The manufacturing cost decreases is a power function of cumulative
by kken 13y ago
Solar power has something that has been proven to be an universial law for all manufacturing: The manufacturing cost decreases is a power function of cumulative production, also known as wright's law.
This is a very interesting paper about this concept:
http://arxiv.org/abs/1207.1463 http://arxiv.org/abs/1207.1463
Moore's law is special because it relies on physical scaling (See Dennard Scaling) of the product. The transistors get smaller with each technology iteration, resulting in a physical correspondence to the economical law. Something like this does not exist for solar cells and most other products.
- dredmorbius 13y agoI've been very interested in finding out what lies behind Swanson's law. I suspect that chip fabrication technologies and methods have much to do with this, and to that extend there would be some carry-over from IC silicon fabs. Thanks for the reference.