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I'm surprised by the 3-7 years energy payback (though i'm not a solar expert at all.) utility-scale turbines are 9 months or so, obviously depending upon the site resource.

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by Crazy Horse on Wed Feb 3rd, 2010 at 03:06:37 PM EST
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Re: Toxic solar (4.00 / 3)

Making the Si is energy-intensive. I suspect thought that this source (the first link) is dated: 3 years was quoted as the ballpark figure 5 years ago already, and the multi-100MW-a-year-scale factories brought energy use down.

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by DoDo on Wed Feb 3rd, 2010 at 04:25:57 PM EST
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Re: Toxic solar (4.00 / 2)

Huh. Checking on the site list, the article is dated 13.09.1999 -- definitely outdated.

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by DoDo on Wed Feb 3rd, 2010 at 04:32:09 PM EST
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Re: Toxic solar (4.00 / 3)

To highlight the development of production efficiency; First Solar claims 0.98 $/W production costs, a cut by two thirds(!) in five years.

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by DoDo on Wed Feb 3rd, 2010 at 04:29:49 PM EST
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