Our good friend Greg Watson of SMOT fame has beat you to the punch: http://www.greenandgoldenergy.com.au/
Word is that he is making $$A. Terry On Dec 16, 2007 6:56 PM, Michael Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I hope they succeed at what they are doing. I am concerned that I cannot find > how much indium and gallium they use either per square meter or per watt. The > price of both of these elements is rising geometrically. Since they are > byproducts of other metal refining, there is no way to increase production of > these elements by themselves. This is an issue they are surely concerned > about, > but make no mention of it that I know of. > > I have put off raising capital for my own photovoltaic project, wherein I use > very inexpensive fresnel lens arrays of my own manufacture in conjuction with > the Boeing-Spectrolab concentrator chips. I have done this because I want to > see how the Nanosolar system pencils out. Because my system requires tracking > it makes it less attractive than a static flat panel, even though the energy > conversion efficiency is much higher. My concentrator system could credibly > reach less than a dollar per watt, but Nanosolar is claiming thirty cents last > time I checked. I have no idea what they base this claim on and I am still a > bit skeptical as I see the prices of indium and gallium soar. > > If anyone has some information on Nanosolar's use of these elements on a per > watt or per unit area basis, I would appreciate a link. > > M. > > > > > --- Michel Jullian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > http://earth2tech.com/2007/12/12/nanosolar-starts-thin-film-solar-panel-production/ > > > > "Nanosolar CEO Martin Roscheisen tells us this morning that the company has > > already started > > production of its thin-film solar panels. The company had set a goal to > > start > > production and > > shipping by the end of this year, and in our post "10 Questions for > > Nanosolar > > CEO Martin Roscheisen" > > back in July, Roscheisen told us: "Yes, we're on track with this. Do not > > expect an Apple-style > > product launch, though." > > Roscheisen tells us that the company has reached that goal with production > > at > > its San Jose, Calif., > > manufacturing facility. We're not sure to what extent production is being > > done, but Roscheisen says > > there will be more info coming soon..." > > > > Impressively on schedule. Nothing about this on their site > > http://www.nanosolar.com yet. > > > > Michel > > > > > > > > > > > > > ____________________________________________________________________________________ > Never miss a thing. Make Yahoo your home page. > http://www.yahoo.com/r/hs > >
