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Archive for November 14th, 2007

Cheap solar panels

I mentioned recently that CBC news story about the couple with solar panels on their roof. The problem up until now has been that technology has been expensive. Sunlight is free but converting it into electricity came in at around $3 per watt. Now a company in California has come up with a way to do the same job for 30c a watt.

Written by Stephen Rees

November 14, 2007 at 7:08 pm

Posted in energy

Tagged with solar panels

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I am a transportation economist and regional planner, displaced from England by the abolition of the Greater London Council and a dislike of Thatcherism. Until March of 2004 I worked for the Greater Vancouver Transportation Authority on wide variety of policy issues. I have long advocated sensible policies to better integrate transport and land use. And this blog is a way to keep up the pressure! It also allows me to vent a bit on related issues.

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