More info:<br><a href="http://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/nanosolar-begins-production-413.html">http://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/nanosolar-begins-production-413.html</a><br><br>It's exciting, but we'll see how it plays out.
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Dec 21, 2007 11:30 AM, Randall Isaac <<a href="mailto:randall@deadletter.com">randall@deadletter.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
That's great. My email was not intended to slam NanoSolar or what they<br>are doing. It was just to point out that if they make a PR claim like<br>$1/watt and they want anyone to take them seriously, then they have to
<br>back it up. They need to come out and say "Here is a solar panel we<br>make, these are its specs, and this is its cost." And until they are<br>willing to do that, the mainstream media is quite right in ignoring the
<br>claim. Since their website says the first 12 months of production is<br>already sold, they may not care how much coverage they get.<br><font color="#888888"><br>Randall<br></font><div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c"><br>
brian kusler wrote:<br>> i got to hang out at nanosolar a couple of months ago while my<br>> brother was down here (he's an electron microscope engineer)...<br>> what's so different about nanosolar is that they just went the
<br>> opposite direction of all the other solar companies -- rather than<br>> trying to wring more energy out of a square meter of roof space by<br>> boosting the efficiency, they focused on mass production techniques
<br>> and dollars per watt.<br>><br>> the other thing that's really cool about their stuff is that their<br>> panels have a one month energy payback time. with traditional solar<br>> panels, it takes about 3 years for them to produce the energy used to
<br>> create them. it's another major environmental win. since all most<br>> people care about is DOLLAR payback time, it should halve that time<br>> (to appx 3 years).<br>><br>> when we put panels onto our roof, our HOA was very concerned that we
<br>> not take up more than "our share" of the roof space with our panels,<br>> in case other units in our building wanted panels of their own. using<br>> normal Sharp panels, we just barely fit. if nanosolar's were
<br>> significantly less efficient than the 14% rating of the Sharp, we<br>> wouldn't have had room it.<br>><br>> : b<br>><br>><br>> _______________________________________________<br>> Social mailing list
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