World Solar Industry Growth Jumped 70 Pct In 2004 (as the US is "asleep"

World Solar Industry Growth Jumped 70 Pct In 2004
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USA: March 17, 2005


NEW YORK - Solar electricity production growth jumped 67 percent last year as established industry players increased output and new players entered the industry, a survey said.


Last year, world solar cell production reached 1,256 megawatts (MW) or about enough to power more than 1.2 million average American homes during daytime.
That was a 67 percent increase over the 750 MW produced in 2003, according to PHOTON International, a German magazine.

"In Japan they're making solar cells because of high electricity prices. Solar panels are selling like hot cakes there," said Colin Murchie, director of legislative affairs at Solar Energy Industries Association in Washington, D.C.

"Germany is boosting output because they want to meet Kyoto Protocol goals," said Murchie. Under the international pact that went into force earlier this year most industrialized nations, excluding the United States and Australia which did not sign the pact, must reduce emissions of greenhouse gases. Utilities and cars mostly produce such gases.

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have to watch out for those gays...espeacially when gas is $3 gallon

Thought everyone knew that.

You must have missed the memo from Karl Rove.

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Please include references and sources. I'd like to know more.

I read something about people working on photoelectric cells that might be added to paint.

Here it is: http://www.news.utoronto.ca/bin6/050110-832.asp

A nanometer-resolved microscope image of a nanoparticle, or quantum dots, similar to that used to make the infrared detectors. The particle is six nanometers – billionths of a meter – in diameter. Individual columns of bonded lead and sulfur atoms are resolved in the image. Such nanoparticles were suspended in a solvent and dried like paint to make a large-area device. Image courtesy of M. A. Hines & G. D. Scholes, Advanced Materials (2003) 15, 1845.

our house will be solar in the next 2 years.