Solar power is taking over

[Quixote1818]

[silverweb]

1. K&R

[font color="navy" face="Verdana"]Excellent!!

[defacto7]

2. K&R

[littlemissmartypants]

3. Very cool...

because when there is a huge spill of solar energy we call that a nice day!

[DetlefK]

4. 10 years from now: Organic Photo-Voltaics (OPV)

- less efficient than silicon-based solar-cells

+ will be way easier to manufacture (prototypes are routinely made from scratch in the labs)
+ production will be way cheaper as they don't need doped silicon, just organic molecules and a transparent protective layer (glass- or plastic-sheet)
+ depending on the used organic material, they can be transparent (-> usable instead of a window)
+ depending on the cover-material, they can be bendable (-> you can use your tent-canvas to power electronics)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organic_solar_cell

[kooljerk666]

5. Solar Tarps!!!

WOW big Tarps that could be moved & folded & taken down & stored before severe weather hits, that would be great.
Solar Powered shingles must be round the corner.

Also shade type things for gardens maybe required soon to help keep stuff growing & not dying in heat, we had these over certain flowerbeds & they absorbed 25% of the light.

I use tarps all the time, to cover something outside & plug the tarp into the grid would make power!

[NBachers]

6. Nanosolar Completes 10.63 MW Solar Installation in Valencia Region of Spain

Nanosolar's printable solar panels allow a printing-press type production on rolls of sheet metal.

http://www.nanosolar.com/

[FailureToCommunicate]

7. Uplifting report! But I worry that corporations like BP, Exxon and Siemens will find a way to screw

us over that power source...

[DhhD]

8. Private citizens, and/or city and county ownerships, allows local government to be in control.

A few cities own their own power plants and therefore the citizens of their jurisdiction can be provided with lower cost energy. Who owns sunlight and electrons coming from the Sun; a star.

Corporations like BP pay no royalties for the oil they pump from under the floor of the Gulf of Mexico.

The new solar industry needs government regulations. Taxpayer money builds supper highways and then foreign companies run toll booths or pays to build part of that highway and keeps that part of the toll. We need regulations concerning usage. Government is supposed to protect the consumers.

[Baitball Blogger]

9. We need something we can lock down on our roofs that won't get pulled off with high winds.

Better yet is if they make one that holds the roof down better than plain shingles.

Even better is if they make one where the shingles ARE solar panels.

[felix_numinous]

10. I knew I heard of solar shingles before

Look at all of these!

http://www.google.com/search?q=solar+shingles&hl=en&client=safari&tbo=u&rls=en&tbm=isch&source=univ&sa=X&ei=5RqxUMnEGOjD2QXLyoCwCA&ved=0CFcQsAQ&biw=1280&bih=615