To: Snowshoe who wrote (113698 ) 10/4/2015 12:04:35 AM From: TobagoJack Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 217557 solar cell is a widget that destines the high volume producers to make more costing less as cumulative production goes up, especially when the cumulative first slopes upward per linear function, followed on by parabolic, eventuate hyperbolic, and evolve to be exponential, and asymptotic exponential quietly, even in face of trade sanctions and such, both china domestic adoption of solar and export ramp of solar doing better each year, allowing for ever faster dropping of cost and ramping of efficiency, at the production as well as the energy conversion levels now, to 2017, 80% of the world's population shall achieve china-enabled grid parity, and the parity shall be 100% by 2020 starting in 2020, GOD parity shall be enabled by china, whereby the cost of rooftop solar generation shall be less expensive than just about all centralized power generation methods (coal, gas, hydro, utility-scale solar) there is no reason why urban / rural electricity cannot be 100% solar, along w/ a good portion of highway vehicles and all trains, as well as ships, and even some types of planes as i had always contended, imperatives give rise to solutions the ever-more-cumulative-volume-for-always-less-cost equation works well also for LED lights and electric cars, both of which go well w/ solar everything consequences? w/ essentially free electricity, the ocean under xinjiang, that which is refilled by nourishment run off from tibet can be desalinated (what ocean? this ocean ibtimes.co.uk "Vast hidden 'ocean' found under Chinese desert " ... and free electricity can power a lot of manufacturing as well as electrify agriculture. all good. the sun, together with pebble this fool.com and thorium that iags.org would enable china to export energy by way of manufacturing modules and installing such anywhere to everywhere given the simultaneous energy equations, together w/ the funding dimensions, and joined w/ the belt and road that would facilitate the grand unification of eurasia and africa, the econosphere that would be impossible without technology becomes not only possible but likely, imo