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To: LindyBill who wrote (437503)	7/27/2011 5:24:45 PM
From: Elsewhere	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793838

A pity that Ronald Bailey doesn't specify the assumptions for the photovoltaics (PV) calculations. No luck either when I searched an official EIA report: Annual Energy Outlook 2011 eia.gov PV module prices have been plummeting, in the order of 3/4 in the past five years, and continue to get cheaper. What I have picked up is that in sunny regions like in Spain or California power production with PV is already cheaper with current module prices than with brown coal. The non-constant output is still a problem but I expect major advances in battery technology in the next years.