Comments on: Brainstorming http://burrowowl.net/wordpress/200807/brainstorming/ Fri, 10 Feb 2012 06:17:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Amelia Nichol http://burrowowl.net/wordpress/200807/brainstorming/comment-page-1/#comment-97779 Amelia Nichol Fri, 08 Apr 2011 08:13:44 +0000 http://burrowowl.net/wordpress/?p=1185#comment-97779 I have to admit i always was obviously a little leary of all the hype taking place around solar. After thinking about quite a lot of programs and purchase options my spouce and i chose to take the plunge. We ended up getting solar with no money down and immediatly started saving cash the very first month is was installed. I must say that this advantages of solar seem to be real and I am very happy that we thought to move forward with it. I have to admit i always was obviously a little leary of all the hype taking place around solar. After thinking about quite a lot of programs and purchase options my spouce and i chose to take the plunge. We ended up getting solar with no money down and immediatly started saving cash the very first month is was installed. I must say that this advantages of solar seem to be real and I am very happy that we thought to move forward with it.

]]> By: tonyq http://burrowowl.net/wordpress/200807/brainstorming/comment-page-1/#comment-81103 tonyq Sun, 10 Aug 2008 00:55:17 +0000 http://burrowowl.net/wordpress/?p=1185#comment-81103 Lay off the SimCity, John. Lay off the SimCity, John.

]]> By: Burrowowl http://burrowowl.net/wordpress/200807/brainstorming/comment-page-1/#comment-80507 Burrowowl Fri, 01 Aug 2008 08:06:29 +0000 http://burrowowl.net/wordpress/?p=1185#comment-80507 @meesha: good point, though I see they didn't factor in decommission/cleanup costs for coal plants. Odd, as the waste-products from burning massive amounts of coal are pretty hazardous. Anyhow, I don't see California firing up a bunch of coal-burning power plants in the near future. @chunkbot: Yep. It's an excellent conductor, and the amount of silver used in those things is certainly something that can be <a href="http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=engineering-silicon-solar-cells" rel="nofollow">fine tuned</a> as mass production gets its act together. Apparently a lot of recent breakthroughs in increasing the efficiency of these things actually involves impregnating the silicone crystal with silver, but that's even further outside my areas of expertise. Any time you want to mass-produce something, you run the risk of pushing up the price of the materials consumed in production. @meesha: good point, though I see they didn’t factor in decommission/cleanup costs for coal plants. Odd, as the waste-products from burning massive amounts of coal are pretty hazardous. Anyhow, I don’t see California firing up a bunch of coal-burning power plants in the near future.

@chunkbot: Yep. It’s an excellent conductor, and the amount of silver used in those things is certainly something that can be fine tuned as mass production gets its act together. Apparently a lot of recent breakthroughs in increasing the efficiency of these things actually involves impregnating the silicone crystal with silver, but that’s even further outside my areas of expertise. Any time you want to mass-produce something, you run the risk of pushing up the price of the materials consumed in production.

]]> By: chunkbot http://burrowowl.net/wordpress/200807/brainstorming/comment-page-1/#comment-80493 chunkbot Fri, 01 Aug 2008 04:06:23 +0000 http://burrowowl.net/wordpress/?p=1185#comment-80493 I thought the problem with solar cell panels is that they use a lot of silver... same reason film is expensive... so they end up being a lot to make? I could be wrong, or totally misrepresenting the facts. I thought the problem with solar cell panels is that they use a lot of silver… same reason film is expensive… so they end up being a lot to make? I could be wrong, or totally misrepresenting the facts.

]]> By: meesha.v http://burrowowl.net/wordpress/200807/brainstorming/comment-page-1/#comment-80491 meesha.v Fri, 01 Aug 2008 01:23:38 +0000 http://burrowowl.net/wordpress/?p=1185#comment-80491 http://www.nucleartourist.com/basics/costs.htm - obviously this can be flawed but it shows that nuclear overall is higher. http://www.nucleartourist.com/basics/costs.htm – obviously this can be flawed but it shows that nuclear overall is higher.

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