.60 per peak watt solar [RE-wrenches]

[Rob Wills]

I've been following the work at the university of Lausanne for about 5
years.  I have seen samples of the TiO2 panel that put out a small amount of
power - enough to run a toy motor with a cell about 2 x 8 inches..

In the past, they had troubles with the electrolyte drying out etc and were
trying to go solid state.

So they are not exactly snake oil, but I agree with Bill - don't delay your
current installations till you see real production (lab to market typically
takes 10 years..)

Rob Wills
Advanced Energy

-----Original Message-----
From: Bill Brooks [mailto:billbrooks7 at earthlink.net]
Sent: Monday, April 09, 2001 9:48 PM
To: RE-wrenches at topica.com
Subject: RE: .60 per peak watt solar [RE-wrenches]


Not to come down too hard on stuff like this, but our industry has made so
many of these claims that we have severely hurt the credibility of our
products. Until it roles off the manufacturing plant's line at three times
that cost, I don't want to hear another word out of anyone claiming $1/Watt.

Bill.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bob Ellison, Alternative Energy Systems [mailto:ellison at gisco.net]
> Sent: Monday, April 09, 2001 5:59 PM
> To: RE-wrenches
> Subject: .60 per peak watt solar [RE-wrenches]
>
>
> Check this site for some new solar panel info>.
>
> http://dcwww.epfl.ch/lpi/icp2res.html#Sect3>
>
> Interesting if it would get here in large volumes. They figure 10%
> efficiency and .60 per peak watt...
>
> Thought it might be of interest to the group.
>
> Later,
> Bob>
>
>
> RE. Ellison
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> > Switzerland's Ecole Polytechnique de Lausanne has posted an
> > announcement of a new solar pholtovoltaic technology.  They claim
> > that they can achieve costs of 60 cents per watt of capacity.  The
> > technology uses common materials and low-temperature processes.
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