Cost Effective Solar
By SolarPromoter - 30.09.2008
SolFocus has recently announced that they have developed a new form of photovoltaic cell that will reduce overall costs while delivering more effective energy output levels. The array design features bowl-like mirrors that will focus energy directly onto a one-square-centimeter solar cell. By doing this, the cells will further concentrate the light nearly 500 times, thus improving the cells overall efficiency.
SolFocus expects that their first installation will be I place producing nearly 500 KW by the end of this summer. The company also suggests that power from their arrays will be as cheap as energy produced by more conventional means. This announcement could be just what this nation needs to hedge off dependence of foreign energy sources, try to think of it as drug rehab for the economy. Speaking of drug and alcohol rehab in regards to stemming dependence on foreign energy, SolFocus has announced their summer campaign may be drawing to a close, but there will be similar programs beginning this Autumn and continuing into the new year.
Source: TechnologyReview
November 15th, 2008 at 1:47 pm
It sams a lot of the reason more has not been done in making solar afordable.
It seams every thing we do is all about money.
If scientists would openly collarbrate instead of re-inventing the wheel each time a discovery is attempted. Its every -one’s- planet rich or poor, each day the problem is unsolved the worse it gets. I rembered that in the USA alone 10 million barrels of oil are burned in cars truck lawn mowers each day etc.. please much more collaberation not for profit, but for our people our planet!