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To: microhoogle! who wrote (39298)	8/27/2008 11:39:01 AM
From: Joe S Pack	Respond to of 218043

As for India, most of the houses that are built for the past several years have solar water heaters. Government gives around 10 - 20% subsidy when one install a solar water heater. But on the industrial side I am not sure how big the push is. But there are several active University/commercial institutional level research to harness solar energy. There is a lot of focus on this issue. Almost whole country can get high solar radiation more than 320 days per year and is close to the Equator. -J6P I suspect Solar will get a strong foothold in densely populated countries like China, India and other emerging nations with abundant sunshine. India should be diving into it big time and I am not sure if they are doing much

To: microhoogle! who wrote (39298)	8/27/2008 2:47:19 PM
From: TobagoJack	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 218043

solar is big now, in socialist europe, where the desire for good life, wastrel govt to dictate its adoption at tax payer subsidies, and where national security imperative come together, but making much of the stuff in china china just implemented practical subsidies to popularize solar, starting a week ago olympic village show cased a lot of solar all system go go go honeywell is already making money setting up and operating solar for schools in communist california using current subsidized economics china make 1/3 and ramping to 1/2 of global solar pv cells, but currently export 99% of it due to everyone having to subsidize via use of inexpensive and carbon-emission mispriced coal, and this is changing india, supposedly democratic, is nowhere on solar, but making the usual one step forward and one step back progress given that solar is a scale biz, suspect supposedly democratic india will be importing solar energy from obviously capitalist china as efficiencies rise and cost fall, and storage solutions and dc appliance solutions makes assured progress, solar grid parity will march from remote parts of equator towards the poles of the planet