Mosiah, This is how i see wind power

[HL]

Maybe the Munro project could show Texas a thing or two...
Lm Otero / AP
Texas already leads the nation in wind power with turbines like these near Wingate.

[Mosiah]

If it's not done on a scale similar to that in the USA then it's garbage? Act like yuh have sense nuh man!

[Gamma]

"act".....the deconstruction of a man......bitta....tsk tsk tsk

[HL]

Boy don't be a bloody simpleton!!

Of course not on the scale as the US -- or even Texas for that matter.

My point is: Jamaica needs to establish a long term energy policy. Wind power is one excellent alternative that could/should be maximized.

The attempt at Munro is good (and a first step) but not good enough.

[Mosiah]

No, he didn't just call me "boy".

I know where you work. Is Jamaica mi come fram!

[Bruce]

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Home : Economics & Public Policy : Environment : New Low Cost Solar Panels Ready for Mass Production New Low Cost Solar Panels Ready for Mass Production

Colorado's State Univ.'s panels will cost less than $1 per watt.

Compiled By Adrienne Selko Sept. 10, 2007 -- Colorado State University's method for manufacturing low-cost, high-efficiency solar panels is nearing mass production. AVA Solar Inc. will start production by the end of next year on the technology developed by mechanical engineering Professor W.S. Sampath at Colorado State. The new 200-megawatt factory is expected to employ up to 500 people. Based on the average household usage, 200 megawatts will power 40,000 U.S. homes.

Produced at less than $1 per watt, the panels will dramatically reduce the cost of generating solar electricity and could power homes and businesses around the globe with clean energy for roughly the same cost as traditionally generated electricity.

Sampath has developed a continuous, automated manufacturing process for solar panels using glass coating with a cadmium telluride thin film instead of the standard high-cost crystalline silicon. Because the process produces high efficiency devices (ranging from 11% to 13%) at a very high rate and yield, it can be done much more cheaply than with existing technologies. The cost to the consumer could be as low as $2 per watt, about half the current cost of solar panels. In addition, this solar technology need not be tied to a grid, so it can be affordably installed and operated in nearly any location.

The process is a low waste process with less than 2% of the materials used in production needing to be recycled. It also makes better use of raw materials since the process converts solar energy into electricity more efficiently. Cadmium telluride solar panels require 100 times less semiconductor material than high-cost crystalline silicon panels.

"This technology offers a significant improvement in capital and labor productivity and overall manufacturing efficiency," said Sampath, director of Colorado State's Materials Engineering Laboratory.

Sampath has spent the past 16 years perfecting the technology. In that time, annual global sales of photovoltaic technology have grown to approximately 2 gigawatts or two billion watts -- roughly a $6 billion industry. Demand has increased nearly 40% a year for each of the past five years -- a trend that analysts and industry experts expect to continue.
By 2010, solar cell manufacturing is expected to be a $25 billion-plus industry.

[MdmeX]

No, he didn't just call me "boy".

I know where you work. Is Jamaica mi come fram!

Mosiah - HL certainly knows how to PUSH your buttons

[HL]

Sorry Sirr...whoooops....MAN !!!

[HL]

Bruce, this is another example of what I am talking about.

You are a regular visitor to jamaica. You know well that two things jamaica has a lot of is sun and constant wind ('specially along the shore).

Half the homes should have solar panels....

This island should be among the leader in alternative energy.

[Hortical]

I would surmise that the wind turbine at Munro produces enough juice to power an Ipod.

[Mosiah]

Typical response from a yank. Are you one?

It produced enuff juice for the school to sell to JPS.

[Hortical]

So the school produces enough energy for all its needs in 2008?

[Gamma]

a better example of a wind turbine [*insert picture of HL here*]

[Mosiah]

...not to be confused with an airbag.

[HL]

gamma , it's the abundance of mentality like yours that holds back jamaica.

A fair amount of education--but the inability to see things beyond the 'jamaican universe'....

Don't believe me?

Jamaica seems to have more PhD's in leadership/ mm3 , than any country I know--yet look at the condition and state of the country...

Last time: You cannot learn from anyone or any country you don't like!!!!


~~groannnn~~