Wired [RE-wrenches]

[Peter Parrish]

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My take on this company is that their approach is very speculative, not so
much as to the technology as to the application space. Does anyone know if
they still plan to use a Stirling engine to take away the heat?

- Peter 

Peter T. Parrish, Ph.D., President
California Solar Engineering, Inc.
820 Cynthia Ave.
Los Angeles, CA 90065
Ph 323-258-8883
Mobile 323-839-6108
Fax 323-258-8885
peter.parrish at calsolareng.com 


-----Original Message-----
From: Bill Brooks [mailto:bill at brooksolar.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, July 26, 2005 12:16 PM
To: RE-wrenches at topica.com
Subject: RE: Wired [RE-wrenches]

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Matt T,

Put another nickel in your jar (for all the innovations that claim they have
solved the PV cost issue), and move on with life. I took a look at the
website a few weeks ago. As the article says, you wish him luck, but this is
the wrong product for the wrong market. Try again with all your venture
capital Mr. Bill Gross.

Keep in mind that as PV becomes popular, many very intelligent people will
wisk by our industry proposing to save us from our moronic selves and
provide PV that is so much cheaper. Mark my words, there will be a 99.9%
failure rate with those folks. Hopefully, we will have some truly inventive
folks come along that are not overwhelmed with their own intelligence that
will help us get better, but I don't see people like this guy having a
snowball's chance in heck being one of them.

Bill.


-----Original Message-----
From: Matt Tritt [mailto:solarone at charter.net] 
Sent: Tuesday, July 26, 2005 11:48 AM
To: RE-wrenches at topica.com
Subject: Wired [RE-wrenches]

I was wondering how many of you have seen the latest Wired magazine with 
the article on the "revolutionary" PV toy being hyped by Bill Gross (a 
former successful dot comer) and his company, Energy Innovations. 
Basically, the "Sunflower" is a mini solar plant with dual-axis 
concentrating mirrors that focus on a small PV module mounted on a pole. 
The article claims efficiencies of >20%, but the unit is 25 square feet 
of mirrors feeding a single module of what appears to be a 3 sq. ft. 
collector; all this for a claimed one kW output per solar day (in LA). 
Wow. When you can do the same or better from a single 165 Watt PV 
module, why bother?

Check it out  www.wired.com   and look for archived article 13.07

Matt T

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