Actually there is some technology being developed at MIT that is going to blow the bottom out on solar energy and not only improve it, but make it affordable to consumers.
[quote]phil_leotardo wrote:
Actually there is some technology being developed at MIT that is going to blow the bottom out on solar energy and not only improve it, but make it affordable to consumers. [/quote]
should I wait to buy solar or is it something my grandkids will be buying?
[quote]phil_leotardo wrote:
Actually there is some technology being developed at MIT that is going to blow the bottom out on solar energy and not only improve it, but make it affordable to consumers. [/quote]
OK…then I vote to throw some of my tax dollars on that project.
[quote]phil_leotardo wrote:
Actually there is some technology being developed at MIT that is going to blow the bottom out on solar energy and not only improve it, but make it affordable to consumers. [/quote]
"Requiring nothing but abundant, non-toxic natural materials, this discovery could unlock the most potent, carbon-free energy source of all: the sun. “This is the nirvana of what we’ve been talking about for years,” said MIT’s Daniel Nocera, the Henry Dreyfus Professor of Energy at MIT and senior author of a paper describing the work in the July 31 issue of Science. “Solar power has always been a limited, far-off solution. Now we can seriously think about solar power as unlimited and soon.”
http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2008/oxygen-0731.html
Cool find, Phil!!
[quote]shookers wrote:
Why don’t we just buy lots of condoms for everyone? [/quote]
I want a pony.
[quote]Headhunter wrote:
phil_leotardo wrote:
Actually there is some technology being developed at MIT that is going to blow the bottom out on solar energy and not only improve it, but make it affordable to consumers.
"Requiring nothing but abundant, non-toxic natural materials, this discovery could unlock the most potent, carbon-free energy source of all: the sun.
“This is the nirvana of what we’ve been talking about for years,” said MIT’s Daniel Nocera, the Henry Dreyfus Professor of Energy at MIT and senior author of a paper describing the work in the July 31 issue of Science. “Solar power has always been a limited, far-off solution. Now we can seriously think about solar power as unlimited and soon.”
http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2008/oxygen-0731.html
Cool find, Phil!!
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Dozens of governments have spent dozens of billions to develop alternative energies…
… and a privately funded research project is going to make them obsolete.
Ahem…
edit: damn, only semi-private.
[quote]dhickey wrote:
should I wait to buy solar or is it something my grandkids will be buying?[/quote]
From what I have read they should be ready to hit the market in a few years. They won’t be “panels” of any kind though. They will be able to be interwoven into things like roof tiles and even cell phones.
[quote]phil_leotardo wrote:
dhickey wrote:
should I wait to buy solar or is it something my grandkids will be buying?
From what I have read they should be ready to hit the market in a few years. They won’t be “panels” of any kind though. They will be able to be interwoven into things like roof tiles and even cell phones.
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Sweet. I’ll take a jacket and a hat with plugins for my cell phone, laptop, and ipod.