Solar power

[bellenuit]

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Smartflower is a smart solar panel that produces 40% more energy than regular solar panels. It folds itself up into its base at night and blossoms during the day. Would you plant this flower in your yard?

Not sure where the 40% extra is coming from? Is it the design or the panels themselves. If the panels, then why couldn't they be used as regular solar panels? I would assume that they track and always face the sun, thus providing the extra 40% over fixed panels.

 

[Value Collector]

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Smartflower is a smart solar panel that produces 40% more energy than regular solar panels. It folds itself up into its base at night and blossoms during the day. Would you plant this flower in your yard?

No doubt it costs more than 40% more, so is probably a gimmick.

 

[mullokintyre]

From Zero Hedge

Soaring material costs, supply chain constraints, and intensified price competition are some of the reasons why LG Electronics Inc. will shutter its solar factory in Huntsville, Alabama, according to a company press release.

"The decision comes as uncertainties in the global solar panel business continue to increase due to a variety of contributing factors, including the intensification of price competition and the rising cost of raw materials," LG said.
Soaring commodity prices have sent solar-grade polysilicon prices up more than 550% in the last two years. Polysilicon is a critical raw material in producing solar photovoltaic cells for panels.

So who makes Polysillicon that has increased in price so much.
Its the usual suspect.
From BernReuter comes the news that of the ten largest producers of Polysilicon , all but three are in China, which holds positions 1 , and 3 to 6 on that list, with only a US company holding the second position.
In no 9 position was US company Hemlock Silicon, which was the worlds largest producer from 1994 till 2011 before China introduced prohibitive tariffs on Polysillicon imported from the USA.
And we now see that since those tariffs were introduced, production has all but shifted to China.
Who says tariffs don't work??
Mick

 

[rederob]

From Zero Hedge


So who makes Polysillicon that has increased in price so much.
Its the usual suspect.
From BernReuter comes the news that of the ten largest producers of Polysilicon , all but three are in China, which holds positions 1 , and 3 to 6 on that list, with only a US company holding the second position.
In no 9 position was US company Hemlock Silicon, which was the worlds largest producer from 1994 till 2011 before China introduced prohibitive tariffs on Polysillicon imported from the USA.
And we now see that since those tariffs were introduced, production has all but shifted to China.
Who says tariffs don't work??
Mick

A more balanced perspective is here.

 

[SirRumpole]

Maybe this could help solve the problem.

Printable solar cells for lightweight energy - CSIRO

www.csiro.au

 

[mullokintyre]

Maybe this could help solve the problem.

Printable solar cells for lightweight energy - CSIRO

www.csiro.au

Now I am going to have to find out who produces all the Petrovskite (aka Calcium Titanium Oxide mineral CaTiO3 ) to see who has all the factories for that one!
Mick

 

[moXJO]

Where's all these new tech batteries we have been talking about for the last 5- 10 years?

 

[Investoradam]

Maybe this could help solve the problem.

Printable solar cells for lightweight energy - CSIRO

www.csiro.au

it could! but like Teslas teory of knetic energy not enough money will be made by the leftist billionaires and politicians

 

[SirRumpole]

it could! but like Teslas teory of knetic energy not enough money will be made by the leftist billionaires and politicians

Which particular theory are you referring to ?

Link ?

 

[rederob]

Which particular theory are you referring to ?

Link ?

He gets a Nobel Prize if he comes up with one.

 

[finicky]

6,000 birds a year