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Back to First Solar (FSLR) Shining as OPEC Plans Another Production Cut
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Back to First Solar (FSLR) Shining as OPEC Plans Another Production Cut
Back to First Solar (FSLR) Shining as OPEC Plans Another Production Cut
at Dec 18, 2008 12:03 AM $$$ @ 0.5 - 0.8 $/kWh solar is the most expensive renewable energy technology. Once new silicon mines come on line this will drop. Efficiency needs to improve, terrestrial solar is at most 20%. I like solar and in the future it will play a big role, but right now it will help bankrupt the USA.
at Dec 17, 2008 11:32 PM Warren Buffet Will Not Save Us Warren Buffet may be a famous investor, but he is not the kind of investor that we need to invest in "Build America".. Warren is a kind of investor that "sucks blood off America" or something like that...
at Dec 17, 2008 08:31 PM there was fslr news not sure how you missed this, but yesterday, fslr announced they achieved grid parity with their solar cells. that was the news. scott http://www.solarfeeds.com
at Dec 17, 2008 04:08 PM Maybe Firewood will be Banned Dont be so quick to assume that we can always fall back on firewood to keep our houses warm... Firewood is not a clean energy... Firewood is far worse than coal! Firewood is right next door to yours especially if your neighbor use it all day. Soot and particulates get in your lungs unseen and can cause lung cancer.. Nah? Ask your doctor,, he probably is still clueless...
at Dec 17, 2008 04:06 PM Solar Has Come A Long Way, Girlies! I remember 30 years ago when I saw a solar photovoltaic cell for the first time. It was about three inch in diameter and it was so weak that it could capture only 3 or 5 % of the sun energy and costed far more than now. It was so uneconomical except for uses in satellites out in the orbit. We instead use solar energy to heat water to help reduce our hot water bills by using blacked out pipes wrapped in mysterious fabric and put on roofs of our homes.. Photovoltaic energy , forget it, beat it.. Solar photovoltaic technology kept on improving on sunlight capture and manufacturing costs quite gradually for years until now. It is no longer Star Wars anymore.. We can have photovoltaic energy if we want. It is economical enough to protect us from future oil shortages and associated price spikes that is still unthinkable even today.. Last summer when oil prices hit $145 a barrel is convincing enough to start ramping up production of photovoltaic modules on a massive scale. So far, our photovoltaic industry is able to produce enough solar modules to generate electricity only equivalent to one to three new coal fired powerplants a year. In case you are not aware ... the world is already planning for 300 new coal fired powerplants to be built in next 5 years.. We are not even counting dozens of new nuclear powerplants , gas fired powerplants, and even hydropower dams that will flood lands and displacing people. If you want to be able to produce more solar modules to displace only 50 coal fired powerplants over the 5 years, then you can help by investing in solar stocks and also call your local utility about their plans to install future solar modules . If not, you can ask them why not.. The standard answer would be cost versus today's cheap oil or coal... The standard answer is short sighted... The utilites still dont think that they will be held accountable for failing to plan ahead to prevent future price spikes in electricity because of overdependence on fossil fuels like coal, oil, gas and even nuclear... and hydropower.. too. You will be likely to forget that five years later when you are socked with $500 utility bills or higher... maybe $1000?
at Dec 17, 2008 03:49 PM If You Are Against Offshore Oil... I am sure there is many of you who are up in arms against offshore oil platforms, yet shake knees when it comes to invest in solar stocks against currently falling oil prices... Either you choose to shake or jerk knees or we will drill off shore for oil .. Or you can watch "Inconvenient Truth" for 999th time... still trying to figure out how to save Mother Earth and stop global warming, etcetra..... Choices are made and are to be picked!!!
at Dec 17, 2008 03:44 PM You Cant Rest on Your Laurels!! Big Oil stocks is going to fall which should be good news for solar stocks .But to the contrary, investors gave up on solar stocks in beliefs that it is not capitalist to keep investing in solar stocks that no longer compete against lower oil prices. It is a short term "just ahead of your nose" view of solar stocks.. Oil prices is not going to lay still like sheep resting on the pasture for the rest of the day.. When oil prices go up again, you wll ask yourself where the heck is the solar installations that we are promised by Al Gore in his movie "Inconventional Truth". We are already convinced that high oil prices is not going away for a long time no matter how unprofitable it is now to install a solar module out in the fields... Every solar module profitable or not is going to keep one or more barrel of oil from being pumped a year. You see a solar module delivers roughly 75 watts a hour all day all year.., so when you mulitiply a year worth of watts , you will know that it is more than a barrel of oil can deliver in a year. Our sun will last billions of years, but our oil puddle will not last a hundred years and higher prices ever... Profits is not everything.. You will save money if not making profits either way.. They are both as good as gold!