Solar Power Now Cheap as Coal

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Stanford Ovshinsky Makes Fossil Fuels Obsolete!

Stanford Ovshinsky says solar power can now be made as cheap as coal, which would make fossil fuels obsolete! The 88 year old American scientist and founder of Energy Conversion Devices is often compared to Thomas Edison and Albert Einstein. Ovshinsky says he has made good on his promise that was made back in 2008 at the NanoTX08 Conference in Dallas, Texas of being able to show proof of principle of a photovoltaic plant that lowers the cost of photovoltaic energy sources to that of coal, possibly ending the worlds reliance on carbon based fuels. His new method of solar panel production would allow a 150,000 sq. ft. factory produce enough thin-film photovoltaics in a year that could generate one gigawatt of solar energy on an annual basis. That amount of energy is roughly equivalent to that of a nuclear power plant, but it could be accomplished at the same price as coal (a few cents per watt). This particular feat of making solar energy equal to or less than the cost of coal (also reported in the May 2011 edition of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientist) has been Ovshinskys long-term goal over the last half-century, which is to make fossil

fuels obsolete while at the same time providing countless jobs in new industries. The next step is to build the first factory, which should cost no more than $350 million. There is little reason to doubt Stanford Ovshinsky as he was also the scientist and inventor responsible for: * The environmentally friendly nickel-metal hydride battery, which is being widely used in laptop computers, digital cameras, and cell phones. Editors Note: Sadly the large form factor version of NiMH batteries with a proven range of 201 miles in electric cars according to Ovshinsky, has been held hostage by Chevron for the last ten years. * Small flat transistors used in flat screen TVs, which made photocopying and fax machines possible. * Thin-film solar energy laminates and panels * Flat screen liquid crystal displays * Rewritable CD and DVD computer memories * Hydrogen fuel cells * Nonvolatile phase-change electronic memories * Solid hydrogen electric storage