[extropy-chat] Danish Scientists Developing Long-Lasting Plastic Solar Cell

Jeff Davis jrd1415 at yahoo.com
Fri Jul 22 21:54:03 UTC 2005


Extropes,

Danish Scientists Developing Long-Lasting Plastic
Solar Cell

http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/05/07/ap/ap_071505.asp?trk=nl

Note the 50-fold improvement in cost. When adjusted
for the plastic cell's lower efficiency--which for
discussion's sake I'll put at one-third of
silicon's--we get a 16-fold price improvement.  Which
is merely 
v 0.9

Now this is not the only plastic solar cell newsbit
I've seen, so others are racing to achieve the obvious
grail.  What do youse guys know?  Who's got the best
mousetrap and what's it gonna look like and when will
we see the breakout?  How long before we get to two
cents a kilowatt hour and the stuff's coming off the
industrial production line in thousand square meter
rolls?
 
"Silicon!  Single crystal silicon?  Whaddah ya talkin'
about?  You mean inorganic?  Sheesh, that's
antediluvian!  How old are you anyway?  Two hundred
eighty-seven!?  Whoa!  Sorry, old timer, didn't know
who I was talking to.  Man, you don't look a day over
twenty-five.  You must be one of those early adopters,
right?  Way cool.  Seen it all... Say, it's ancient
history I know, and arcane, but did that Guckert guy
actually do the Lewinsky on forty-three, or was it
just a threesome with Turd Blossom and Scotty Mac?   I
mean you were around back then, right?..."

Best, Jeff Davis

   "Everything's hard till you know how to do it."
                           Ray Charles


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