First Solar Cell Created 60 Years Ago (with Video)

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http://cleantechnica.com/2014/04/20/1st-solar-cell-created-60-years-ago-video/

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1. Fascinating to reflect this way

And there's no reason that both economy of scale and increasing ingenuity will not further reduce costs by 1/2 to 1/3 to 1/4 to 1/8th of what they are now over the next 10-15 years.

Also, demand for power increases as population increases, so what happens to the cost of fossil fuel can only be to go in an upward direction (supply/demand).. while supply of solar power increases dramatically, lowering the price of each unit as more units of solar power are produced each and every day. Of course, there will be legislative and gross market forces which work toward increasing the price per unit of solar sourced power, (a watt is a watt is a watt).

Now, on to the use of solar supplied power to desalinate massive amounts of sea water, for irrigating large desert areass for producing vegetable or fruit food sources, (e.g. three vegetable crops per year in the northern USA and Canada instead of one, all due to solar powered sheltered by re-cycled plastic-roofed growing centers, etc.). We have the technology, only lacking the will-power and the government-backed research to pull this off.