'Solar Power Cheaper Than Coal'

Solar Power Cheaper Than Coal: One Company Says Itâ€™s Cracked the Code

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DAVID ROBERTS - grist

Over time Iâ€™ve grown more and more suspicious of stories about breakthrough technologies. I always think back to those heady days of EEStor, the guys who were going to make a battery that would revolutionize grid storage and electric cars alike. 'EEStor CEO says game-changing energy storage device coming by 2010â€! As you may have noticed, 2010 came and went and the game remains unchanged.

All of which is to say, regarding the post to follow: caveat lector.

Still, this looks very, very cool.

CleanTechnica has an exclusive on a new solar technology that claims to be able to produce power with a levelized cost of energy (LCOE) of 8Â¢/kWh. That is mind-boggling, 'two-thirds the price of retail electricity and over 3 times cheaper than current solar technology.â€ If the claim proves to be true (and a lot can happen between prototype and mass manufacturing), it could ...

Yoshi k. Feb 5, 2013, 2:35pm UTC

This is something I would seriously consider investing in as a large part of my diversified portfolio if claims are verified. Thanks for the heads up:)).

Yoshi k. Feb 5, 2013, 2:38pm UTC

Perhaps nano technology can be adapted to this in some manner?

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John Knight Feb 5, 2013, 5:56pm UTC

I certainly hope this is a real advance, but some things the video says don't add up, so to speak . . Like the spinning panels being cooled like one's skin from a "summer breeze", (so as to increase efficiency since solar panels lose efficiency when they heat up) . . But there is a "hermetically sealed" glass dome over the whole array? Gonna get pretty warm in there me thinks . . . And that cooling summer breeze on our skin effect (above ninety eight degrees) is dependent on evaporation . . So using that sort of "touchy feely" lingo makes me wonder . . .

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