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From: Lew Hodgett (no email)
Date: Sat Apr 07 2007 - 22:12:20 EDT
wrote:
> Let's see now.
> 10 BILLION bucks per year. That's what we are
> currently giving to the oil companies to foster
> "alternative energy research".
> Even assuming 700 bucks per 125 watt Kyocera
> solar panel that would pay for 14,285,714 and a
> fraction panels. Even if we assume only getting
> HALF the rated power for 4 hour a day, that is
> 130,357 MEGA watt hours every year.
> I think...
> And that number will be added to the total EVERY
> YEAR!
>
>
> So. How much carbon dioxide production would THAT
> eliminate?
> I bet a lot more than the oil companies will ever
> 'develop'.
>
>
Couple of things to keep in perspective.
Big oil is already involved in the solar panel business.
Have a customer who supplies solar panels for the space program.
It utilizes some very nasty production processes that require some very
sophisticated and
expensive waste treatments programs.
Trying to scale those processes up into major production programs would
be very interesting indeed.
Lew
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