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Default 1001 things that won' t save the planet. Or even come close.

In message , at 16:21:40 on
Mon, 31 Dec 2007, The Natural Philosopher remarked:
"We aim to produce the panels for 99 cents [50p] a watt, which is
comparable to the price of electricity generated from coal."


So that's £500 for a kilowatt panel, a kilowatt hour is about 10p from
coal, so they are expecting a life of 5,000 hours?
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Roland Perry