Solar Power Now Cheaper Than Coal

Yeah, I read about this the other day. Cool stuff. And this on the heals of the Bush administration/EPA pissing in California's clean air coffee mug. WTF GEORGE. W.T.F.

Tomorrow's healine:

"World's leading solar energy researchers found dead in plane crash"

- OPEC heads offer sympathy, receipts from a movie theatre on the night of the disaster, "Nowhere near the crash," says Sheikh.

I wonder where they get their numbers. Here coal electricity costs roughly 0.01 € per kilowatt/hour, while solar is starting to be attractive around 0.1 € (and Germany is subsidizing it up to 0.3, which is why it has the highest installed solar power in the world).

From the theorhetical article:

"... friends and family all seem to agree that none of the scientists were scheduled to BE on a plane any time soon..."

I feel like there should be a GI Joe hologram on that solar cell.

quote:

Originally posted by UberDog:
I feel like there should be a GI Joe hologram on that solar cell.

That's some kinda fetish thar, mate.

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Tomorrow's healine:

"World's leading solar energy researchers found dead in plane crash"

> WBTV reported death as "most likely not a homicide."
>
> On Nov. 11, inventor of a revolutionary, affordable, clean energy
> technology, M. DeGeus was found slumped in his car, totally
> unresponsive, in the long-term parking lot of the Charlotte
Douglass
> International Airport in North Carolina. He was taken to the
hospital
> and died a short time later. The autopsy suggested heart failure,
so
> officials were saying the death was a result of a medical problem
or
> natural causes, and not likely to be a homicide. (Ref.; ref.)
>
> Those who were involved with his research are doubtful, citing,
among
> other things, that he had been in good health at around age forty
> five. The timing is also suspicious. He was apparently on his way
to
> Europe where he was to secure major funding for the development
and
> commercialization of his technology, which could make oil
obsolete.
>
> Charlotte Macklenburg Police detective, M. Conner, said that it
would
> be a while yet before the toxicology report comes in on this case.
>
> Tom Bearden, a well-known figure in the cutting-edge, clean energy
> technology industry, wrote a lengthy report on the inventor, his
> death, and his technology. He said:
>
> "DeGeus was the inventor of a thin wafer-like material/device that
> somehow specially aligned the atoms or electron currents ongoing
in
> that material, so that the wafer produced a constant amperage at a
> small voltage – continuous real power, or in other words a strange
> kind of "self-powering battery".
>
> Bearden also speculates about the cause of death, citing a
technology
> that shoots an electromagnetic beam that destroys the body's
control
> of its heartbeat. He said there are two basic sizes of the Venus
ECCM
> technique. One has a range of around thirty feet, and the other,
> about the size of a bazooka, has an effective range of around 200
feet.
>
> Bearden claims to have been hit with such a device along with his
> colleague Ken Moore while at a restaurant several years ago. They
> felt the fibrillation and saw the would-be assassin about 20 feet
> away, with his suit coat pulled back, exposing a book-sized
shooter.
> Fortunately, they were near an emergency exit and were able to get
> away before a lethal dose was received.
>
> DeGeus had been in Salt Lake City a couple of weeks ago,
demonstrating
> the technology to some people who were also seeking to raise
money for
> its advancement. That group said that DeGeus was not the only
person
> who knew how the technology works, and they hope to see it go
ahead
> even though DeGeus is no longer around.
>
> http://pesn.com/2007/12/05/9500463_self-
powered_battery_inventor_dead/