Renewable alternative energy

Matt Holck

a US goal is to become energy self sufficient

Towards this end, I came across a company that produces
Solar Cells by printing organic dies onto metal foil.

The watt yield converts 4-5% of the sunlight exposure to electricity.
The sun yields approximately 250 W/(M^2) [1]
therefor one square meter of foil would create 10-12 Watts of electricity.
10 square meters on a roof top could produce 100 to 120 watts of power.
That is not enough power to run a household.

However,
the production cost is cheap
claiming to return cost in energy in less than a month.

nesf

Moved to Green Issues.

Matt Holck

While the gren party may support this issue,
I feel the subject on how the US is to become energy independent is a stated goal of the new Obahma administration in the US politics.
Scuffling the thread from that forum marginalizes it's roll by the government.

nesf

Matt Holck wrote: »

While the gren party may support this issue,
I feel the subject on how the US is to become energy independent is a stated goal of the new Obahma administration in the US politics.
Scuffling the thread from that forum marginalizes it's roll by the government.

Ah, so that's what you wanted to discuss, my apologies I though you wanted to begin a discussion on advances in renewable energy sources like the one above. This forum being one to discuss such matters.

Matt Holck

agreed

I think the subject can funtion in both forums

to begin a discussion on advances in renewable energy sources

indeed what programs the US government should be funding

nesf

Matt Holck wrote: »

indeed what programs the US government should be funding

Well, there's a difference, do you want to discuss it purely from a US context or do you want to discuss renewable energy in general? If it's the latter it should be here, if it's the former US Politics would be a good forum for it. I don't mind but if it is the former, report the OP and ask the mods here to move the thread back.

Matt Holck

I don't know what OP means

nesf

Matt Holck wrote: »

I don't know what OP means

Original Post in this instance. Sorry, overusing acronyms is a bad habit of mine.

toastelectric

Australia has now turned away from green energy after many states electricity prices went to the highest in the world. Its not working, engineers have been saying its not going to work. There was an article in last Sunday Business Post that Gaelectric (the big Irish wind energy Company) is sitting of 42 million euros of debt and hopes someone to bail them out.

toastelectric

Matt Holck wrote: »

I don't know what OP means

OP has many many meanings. You can search for them on Wikipedia but on internet chat forums its normally means Original Poster.

Rigor Mortis

toastelectric wrote: »

Australia has now turned away from green energy after many states electricity prices went to the highest in the world. Its not working, engineers have been saying its not going to work. There was an article in last Sunday Business Post that Gaelectric (the big Irish wind energy Company) is sitting of 42 million euros of debt and hopes someone to bail them out.

If we argued that Debt was a reason not to proceed with a technology or a business then the internet wouldn't exist, Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat etc all would have died within their first years.

Capt'n Midnight

Rigor Mortis wrote: »

If we argued that Debt was a reason not to proceed with a technology or a business

Hydroelectric and nuclear would never get built either

Gaelectric have 174MW of wind energy out of 3,320 on the Island and a further 4,051 planned.