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Solar now cheaper than coal!

From: http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2007/dec/29/solarpower.renewableenergy

“Figures released yesterday by the Earth Policy Institute in Washington showed that solar electricity generation was now the fastest-growing electricity source, doubling its output every two years. It is now attracting government and venture capital money on an unprecedented scale.”

“This is the world’s lowest-cost solar panel, which we believe will make us the first solar manufacturer capable of profitably selling solar panels at as little as 99 cents a watt,” said Roscheisen yesterday.”

PopSci awarded nanosolar as the most innovative product of 2007.
http://www.popsci.com/popsci/flat/bown/2007/green/item_59.html

Further, these exponential doubling trends not only occur in solar/renewables, but hard drive storage and compression technology, computer processing speed, LED lighting, etc…

…known resources” are not given by nature; they depend on the analytical capacities of the human mind. We can never know how many resources can be obtained from a cubic foot of the universe: all we know is how much we have found thus far, at a given date. You can starve in the middle of a field of wheat if your mind hasn’t identified wheat as edible. Real Wealth results from Real Knowledge, which is increasing faster all the time. - Robert Anton Wilson.