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By KenZweibel
January 3, 2011
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14 Comments
We don’t burn solar modules to make electricity. If we could recycle 100% of them forever, we would produce an infinite amount of electricity per gram of material. Even in practical use, we use ...
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By KenZweibel
November 15, 2010
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2 Comments
Paula Mints is a respected member of the elite of the PV community. Her article in Solar Industry (November 2010) is not wrong, it just is not deep enough. Yes, to a great degree, thin films...
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By KenZweibel
November 12, 2010
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1 Comment
I have never actually seen the inside of a calculation of how much it costs to avoid CO2 using PV. So I thought I’d do it myself and see if it’s as horrible as some people seem to imply.
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By KenZweibel
October 7, 2010
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7 Comments
Sometimes I like to write down my scifi dream for solar, just to see if it all adds up, or even approximately adds up.
My scifi dream is to have solar distributed around the world, with maybe a ma...
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By KenZweibel
September 16, 2010
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6 Comments
Most people expect and hope that PV will become cost-effective so that it can compete without government subsidies. They see this as the societal end game, an end to subsidies and the starting flag ...
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By KenZweibel
August 18, 2010
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5 Comments
This is a question that, like drilling in deep water, sets off all the alarms across all the economic and environmental groups. The New York Times had an article where all this came up in a star...
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By KenZweibel
August 2, 2010
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15 Comments
The United States has a peculiar problem adopting necessary change. With so many constituencies to palliate, the almost-universal solution is to avoid conflict where possible and payoff the constitu...
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About:
Ken Zweibel has almost 30 years experience in solar photovoltaics. He was at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (Golden, CO) much of that time and the pro...
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