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Solar Thermal’s Learning Curve Says It’ll Be Competing with Coal Soon

By Alexis Madrigal ⋅ August 9, 2009 ⋅ One comment

How far away from competing with coal is solar thermal technology?
Not far, says David Wheeler, a senior fellow at the Center for Global Development. With $4-8 billion dollars of learning curve investments over the next five years or so, a new solar thermal plant would be competitive with a new coal plant.
He looked at the [...]

SERI Archive: 40 Cents a Watt Solar Power by the Year 2000 Or Bust

By Alexis Madrigal ⋅ July 22, 2009 ⋅ 2 comments

Document: Advances in Photovoltaics R&D: An Overview [Downloadable PDF]
Authors: L.L. Kazmerski (Larry Kazmerski)
Date: 1981
Notes: Reprinted from the Proceedings of the 16th Intersociety Energy Conversion Engineering Conference, Vol. 2. NY: ASME.
Task Number: 1090.00
Abstract: A summary status of the advanced photovoltaics research and development is presented. These technologies cover two broad areas: (1) Thin-film intermediate efficiency (>10%) [...]

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