As China and India industrialize
nanotech battery October 3rd, 2008Ive banished incandescents from my home. Parent ReGood deal Score5, Insightful by Rei 128717 on 16, 0343AM 22063674 Homepage First of all, Nanosolar HOPES to make the cells at 1W, they are nowhere near that cheap yet, and this is the price their marketing department HOPES to achieve. Finally, even if they were able to start producing these at competitive costs and at large rate, you still have the problem that you will have to increase solar photovoltaic output by factor of just to reach 20 of current energy demand.
Does anybody SERIOUSLY believe that photovoltaic wind is up to the job? I mean for the love of god, electric cars are great in that they could let us use Nuclear power or plants equipped with carbon capture technology, but they will not be solar powered. They wont save us from the energy gap that is likely to occur within 2030 years, and they only deal with the costs incurred by the cells themselves, they dont address the of storing and converting the energy.
Third, the demand for gasoline has been rising constantly year to year. Parent ReDupe by mea37 Score3 16, 1232PMReDupe by mea37 Score1 17, 1248AM1 reply beneath your current threshold. What more do you want? remember when MB HDD was big. CIGS cells are profitable at 1W. Genetic engineering opens whole new world in biology. Here, let me put it into perspective for For those too lazy to follow the link. World energy consumptionOil 37Coal 25Gas 23Nuclear 6Biomass 4Hydro 3Solar heat 0. 5Wind 0. 3Geothermal 0. 2Biofuels 0. 2Photovoltaics 0. 02WORLDWIDE photovoltaic production is about 13GW. More common carbon C6 anodes are about twice that.
single nuclear reactor or coal fired powerplant can produce 12 GW. Its only several times improvement without an equivalent cathode improvement. Parent ReGood deal by olman Score2 16, 0221PMReGood deal by Rei Score2 16, 0336PMReGood deal by TooMuchToDo Score2 16, 0346AM ReGood deal Score5, Informative by ThreeGigs 239452 on 16, 0503AM 22064112 First of all, Nanosolar HOPES to make the cells at 1W, they are nowhere near that cheap yet, and this is the price their marketing department HOPES to achieveMinor information injection hereNanosolar _is_ making solar sheets Certainly, Detroit wont. How about hour battery that can charge in minutes?
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