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  • From: bob ford <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>
  • To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] wild new solar advances coming
  • Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2008 17:32:25 -0700 (PDT)

That makes sense, James. Now I have to go look up dilithium crystal
again.....bobford


--- On Fri, 10/24/08, Clansgian AT wmconnect.com <Clansgian AT wmconnect.com> wrote:

> From: Clansgian AT wmconnect.com <Clansgian AT wmconnect.com>
> Subject: Re: [Homestead] wild new solar advances coming
> To: bobford79 AT yahoo.com
> Date: Friday, October 24, 2008, 6:23 PM
> > >New solar cell material achieves almost 100%
> efficiency, could solve
> > world-wide energy problems
>
> Not even close. First, 100% efficiency or anything near it
> is science
> fiction. Dig deeply enough and you will find some
> grant-monger beneath this. Just
> give me enough money and I'll achieve 100% solar
> efficiency, some day, maybe,
> depends on how much grant money you've got for me to
> keep dangling the carrot
> in front of you.
>
> Then suppose you achieve it. There is 833 watts of energy
> in one square yard
> of direct sunlight at high noon under ideal conditions. No
> more. Owing to
> the realities of clouds, seasons, night, etc. the average
> during a 24 hr period
> is much less EVEN if you achieved 100% efficiency.
>
> Plus with solar, as Don has pointed out, if you can use it
> on the spot you
> have to store it. That is, when the direct noon sun on
> solstice is giving you
> that 833 (theoretical) watts, you don't need the
> electric lighting. So even if
> your solar cells achieve 100% efficiency, you storage and
> delivery system
> does not.
>
> And the last disparage of this is that the more cells you
> try to make the
> more scarce become the materials and the price goes up
> sharply.
>
> No one is actually coming up with the equivalent of
> dilithium crystals.
>
>
> James







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