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First solar FSLR is up big today, Nov 8,2007. Its scaling its Cadmium Telluride solar cell production up and have beaten profit expectations by a wide margin.  Their current cost per watt is approximately 1.19 dollar per watt.  That is a vital number that is much better than past attempts at solar generation.   The stock jumped from approximately 170 to 220 today.  While the stockmarket can be rather faddish my studies of this company indicate that its at least a partial truth.

NanoSolar is developing methods to print solar cells onto ribbons and surfaces of roofing materials.

http://www.cnbc.com/id/15840232?video=525102373

Next factor in the Chevy Volt electric plug in hybrid.  This car intended for release in 2010 at a price point of approximately 30,000 dollars is intended to run solely on batteries for the first 40 miles.  40 miles is a critical number because most people only drive 40 miles or less in their daily commute. Thus it can make a sizable dent in gasoline usage.  Personally for years I’ve noticed I do about 10,000 - 15,000 miles per year. This translates to an average of 30 to 41 miles per day. 

The Volt is a serial hybrid which means it has unlimited range. This is because it has a standard old fashioned combustion engine generator onboard to allow you to recharge from onboard petro fuel.  Thus you don’t have to own 2 cars. In the past if you had solely electric you had to think otherwise if you wanted to drive across the nation or even just your state of residence. This is because you could only go as far as your battery charge would allow.  With an onboard generator you can run just like the good old days with gas on the long trips.  On the short trips you can go with pure electric.  This is a much better usage of design parameters than the Prius hybrid.  Equivalent costs of electricity are quoted at about 50 cents per gallon.  In reality I think you can look for this to go up if this type of design finds widespread usage.  I think that is inevitable given the commodities boom we have been having.  That being said your car will effectively be running off of coal / natural gas / nuclear that is mined and generated in the USA.  Thus its very likely that trade deficits we have been running will diminish significantly.

   Please GM, do not fudge up the exterior design of this concept car. Leave it as it.  See previous article about concept cars regarding this subject

Chevy Volt Concept Car Webpage

Chevy Volt Blog

These 2 items alone suggest a coming revolution in energy generation and equally important in usage.  When the changes come they will hit fast.  When they do an added benefit is the large cities will experience air that is alot cleaner than it has been in years. 

Don’t expect the MMGW ( man made global warming ) true believers to shut up.  The reality is theirs is an agenda based not on laws of physics.  Theirs is a socialist agenda where they can have the control of Stalin over our lives by pinching the generation of energy like an astronauts air feed.   Unfortunately they will keep piping for their lust for power is bottomless. When alternative energy sources are common and oil is a thing of the past you should expect this gargantuan money - fear machine will hype up another made up cause.

You can see how much clarity you lose going to YouTube by viewing the original video of Ellaine at the beach.  Only problem is that this short clip is 69 MBytes.

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