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The Market Value and Cost of Solar Photovoltaic Electricity
The Market Value and Cost of Solar Photovoltaic Electricity Production
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The high cost of power from solar photovoltaic (PV) panels has been a major deterrent to the technology's market p...
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The idea that you can just do research until you have a robust, efficient and cheap PV system is ridiculous. Real technology development is a gradual process with small improvements in design, production & installation. Some of the improvements can only come from R&D, but many can just be found by actually producing. That is why we need to produce now.
Red herring. He's saying you should buy the Intel or AMD processor(wind turbines, geothermal HDR etc.) and hold off on the crappy VIA processor until it is actually competitive.
Solar panels are very costly and it doesn't help that you have to pay that massive cost up front.
But what?! Your response to the peaker plant, I don't understand your logic at all. Are you saying that because the PV array is on grid or providing power all the time, that it cannot be compared to that of a peaker plant? That really does not make much sense. If PV is a better option at peak times compared to other (used) peak options, then why not use it. Your response to that criticism was a bit off I think.
Peaker plants are used sparingly; only when they're absolutely necessary. Much of the power produced by a solar cell will necessarily end up replacing baseload because there is no peaker plants to replace.
If you pretend that all electricity that is produced by a solar cell replaces peaker plants you're massively overinflating the value of solar PV.
Traditional silicon PV panels are very mature technology; they're not becomming cheaper to produce or more efficient.
Cheaper panels require technological breakthroughs and if you want to hurry them along you shouldn't subsidize installation of crappy panels, you should spend money on research.