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To: d[-_-]b who wrote (355443)	10/19/2007 7:39:53 PM
From: bentway	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1576915

Imagine if the government stepped in, ended Iraq and put that kind of funding into subsidies for homeowners to install photo voltaic roof installations. Prices would drop with economies of scale, a domestic boom would be launched with manufacturers and installers and our dependence on power plant production of energy would be slowly replaced with an incredibly resilient network of micro providers. Research on better tech and storage would also boom. A (D) government might do this. The oily guys own the (R)'s.

To: d[-_-]b who wrote (355443)	10/19/2007 7:57:22 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1576915

Attaining a 40 percent efficient concentrating solar cell means having another technology pathway for producing cost-effective solar electricity. Almost all of today’s solar cell modules do not concentrate sunlight but use only what the sun produces naturally, what researchers call “one sun insolation,” which achieves an efficiency of 12 to 18 percent. However, by using an optical concentrator, sunlight intensity can be increased, squeezing more electricity out of a single solar cell. Don't you think we will continue to see improvements of this magnitude? Not trying to be too demanding but that seems to be typical for most technological devices.