Cheap Solar Where?

   OK, we have been waiting.  For a while now we have seem several promises
for producing $1.00 watt for solar power panels.
One small company has said they have received 100 million to make a factory
to produce them. Their main Engineer has left them so it does not look good.
Did they disappear after getting the front money.  What happened to a TI
venture to make solar cells on a long rolling process.
  There has been at least 10-20 people over the years talking about lower
cost panels but has gone to the wayside.
To really be compative with coal power they need to be in the $ 0.35 per
watt range.

  S F wrote:

Most of these have been news releases designed to fluff stock prices or
attract investment capital.


They're still around and, the last I heard, all their production for
the next year or two has already been sold out. There doesn't seem to be
any big red flags about the company but I'm still withholding judgment
until their panels appear in ordinary circulation.

Thing film panels used to be available for $3/Watt.

Anthony

 On Mon, 19 May 2008 22:20:20 -0700, Anthony Matonak


The key phrase is producing solar panels for $1 a watt.
Everyone for some reason has taken this to mean that these solar
panels will now cost $1 a watt to buy.
ie the production cost = the sale price.
I cant imagine why this would be the case.
Its also interesting that the total production has been sold out to
"someone" at an undisclosed price.
So no evidence of any kind that the solar panels are being sold for $1
a watt.

Whats the production cost of a conventional monocrystalline solar
panel in $ per watt.

 Here is another one, I will get my ink jet printer warmed up now.



http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/earth/4253464.html  

 Another one .
This is so promising I could just jump up in the air, What BY 2009 we will
see them, cant weight.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/main.jhtml?xml=/money/2007/02/19/ccview19.xml