[Greenbuilding] TSHTF

[Speireag Alden]

Sgrìobh Lawrence Lile:

>A practical electric pickup that has a lower life cycle cost than an 
>F-150 was announced just this fall.

     Really?  What's it called?  Is it now commercially available?

>Just this year, Solar cells broke the magic $1 a peak watt barrier, with
>$0.30 per peak watt production costs projected within the year.  One
>plant in California already has orders for as many solar cells as were
>sold in the entire US last year.

     I've been watching other things, so I may have missed this, but I 
think that actual installed prices on solar systems haven't dropped 
much recently.  The supply is growing astronomically, but so is 
demand.  This is a great thing, to be sure, and I welcome it, because 
it means that I'll get my solar system sooner and less expensively. 
But we're nowhere near $1/watt for an actual installation yet.  Last 
I looked, things were still around $5/watt.  Did I miss something?

-Speireag.

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