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Forum Index : Solar : turning point for the solar industry?
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| Jon Bennett Newbie  Joined: 01/11/2007 Location: AustraliaPosts: 27 |
A company called Nanosolar has developed a process for making solar pannels that they recon they can sell at less tha US$1/watt. They have despatched their first shipment to a commercial power station in germany; http://www.reuters.com/article/pressRelease/idUS111060+18-De c-2007+PRN20071218 Guess commercial outfits will chew up all their production for a while but we can always hope that they filter some down for private use. If they run off rolls of film in the US plant and ship them to different continets as rolls in containers then cut and frame them into pannels on the end user continent shipping cost per pannel will be very low. regards jon |
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whiskey Newbie Joined: 19/06/2007 Location: IrelandPosts: 21 |
Every year some new company claim they lower the cost per watt to produce solar PV. None of these manufacturers have ever passed on the savings to the retail trade and we (the consumer) still pay high costs and always will. The cheapest panels retail at present I see worldwide are for sale in Australia by Oatley Electronics. They look Chinese but I cant say for fact. If I were buying panels they look good value if the warranty is reasonable with the amount of watts the panels will produce over a 10 year period. Any good manufacturer has no problem in publishing what we can expect in 10 years from panel x. The Oatley panels are cheaper than trade cost in the US. And no I dont have any involvement with Oatley or even live in the southern hemisphere :) Cheers, Whiskey |
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Bryan1 Guru  Joined: 22/02/2006 Location: AustraliaPosts: 1344 |
Allo Whiskey, Welcome to the forum mate  It's been ages since we caught up  how bout gettin ya butt into irc once in a while  .
Anyway this so-called nanosolar is another prime example of the snake oil salesman propelling themselves into a high profit area trying to gleen the hard earned $$$ out of folk. Really untill Origin Energy come forward with their new thin film pv panels we wont see any price reduction on pv panels. Cheers Bryan |
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Highlander Senior Member  Joined: 03/10/2006 Location: AustraliaPosts: 266 |
I wouldn't get to excited untill it's in the shops with a price tag on it. Suncube is a prime example.  Central Victorian highlands |
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| whiskey Newbie Joined: 19/06/2007 Location: IrelandPosts: 21 |
Hi Bryan, Spose its about time I posted, been joined up a while and havent had time to post. There are many news guys on the block each year who make wild claims in hopes if extracting money from the unwary. The old addage holds true, if it sounds too good to be true, then it probably is. I will stick up a photo diary of the solar water heating panels I will be building as soon as I get done renovating the house. All the pipe work is already in place. Cheers, Whiskey |
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| Jon Bennett Newbie Joined: 01/11/2007 Location: AustraliaPosts: 27 |
Hi Good theory other than they are fully backed by some people who are not idiots and you cannot buy shares with them. Nanosolar investors I have no barrow to push other than I thought people may have been interested, learnt my lesson there I guess. regards jon |
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| Highlander Senior Member Joined: 03/10/2006 Location: AustraliaPosts: 266 |
Don't take it personally Jon, It is interesting. $1 per watt I'll buy $2000 worth of them, if they were for sale. Central Victorian highlands |
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