Comments on: New Solar Power Source?

By: Boy George

Boy George — Mon, 09 Apr 2007 14:16:23 +0000

Oh wait. Yes, I have. I'm sorry, but I just don't have it in me right now to type it all out again. Besides, it was just ramblings anyway. You didn't want to hear me go on and on about this, right?

By: Bryan

Bryan — Sun, 08 Apr 2007 18:46:49 +0000

It is incredibly stupid not to have solar water heating and solar panels at least for exterior lighting in California. I don’t understand it – it saves money, even if you didn’t care about the environment.

I’m thinking about the loss we experience down here after storms. The damage is to the grid, not power generation. The ability to generate power at the home level makes a lot more sense than running electric lines everywhere.

By: cookiejill

cookiejill — Sun, 08 Apr 2007 17:38:03 +0000

Let’s hope that California really “amps” up it’s solar industry. Just seeing these huge Wal Marts and Costco’s with their humungous flat rooftops with no solar anything on them just irks me to no end.

Patagonia is a real leader in thinking about the future and how they can help make tomorrow a reality.

http://xnerg.blogspot.com/2007/04/sustainable-saturday.html

By: Bryan

Bryan — Sun, 08 Apr 2007 16:28:50 +0000

If this pans out you could get all the electricity you need from your roof and batteries. It would make camping a bigger pain in the butt, because a tent coated with something like this would provide juice for all of the things you went into to the woods to avoid.

On the other hand, a the ability to run an air conditioner in a tent in the desert is not exactly an unattractive idea. It could give a whole new meaning to “power suit’.

By: Michael

Michael — Sun, 08 Apr 2007 15:04:48 +0000

I’ve passed the story along to a couple of the people working on solar cells at my university. Maybe they can come up with some journal publications on it, or explain why it won’t work (if it can’t), or why it’s the next best thing since sliced bread (if it can).