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February 27, 2007
Laissez-faire
Ya gotta like a guy who'll say something like this... even if he turns out later to have been too optimistic in his predictions (as I suspect he is). From the UK's Telegraph:
Cheap solar power poised to undercut oil and gas by halfBy Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
Last Updated: 11:31pm GMT 18/02/2007Within five years, solar power will be cheap enough to compete with carbon-generated electricity, even in Britain, Scandinavia or upper Siberia. In a decade, the cost may have fallen so dramatically that solar cells could undercut oil, gas, coal and nuclear power by up to half. Technology is leaping ahead of a stale political debate about fossil fuels.
Anil Sethi, the chief executive of the Swiss start-up company Flisom, says he looks forward to the day - not so far off - when entire cities in America and Europe generate their heating, lighting and air-conditioning needs from solar films on buildings with enough left over to feed a surplus back into the grid.
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"We don't need subsidies, we just need governments to get out of the way and do no harm. They've spent $170bn subsidising nuclear power over the last thirty years," he said.
Posted by joke du jour at February 27, 2007 08:00 PM
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