What German Company Cornered Solar Panel Tech?

Hello Transcendian

Enter into Google: solar panel technology germany

You will find some enlightening links.

Many people have also become aware of oil Companies purchasing up copper miners/refiners/distributors.

They have also purchased into the direct solar cell technology, BP for certain, plus many others have done this.

You cannot blame them, after they have had the energy users in their grip for so long, there is not going to be any easy escape for the likes of us.

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I'll look up Solarex. I did end up looking at Solar Panels at the Lowest Prices in the World, and am trying to get my head to understand all the DC and AC conversions so I can determine what is actually practical to buy for the common working man.

The companies that do make things regardless of what they corner, must have some incentive to make things that are affordable, otherwise what is the point?

Chtank has strong regard for Siemens Solid Oxide Fuel Cells, but I don't find them for sale at a price I understand, as I sort of understand the offerings from Solar Panels at the Lowest Prices in the World.

My wife says that we spend 80 bucks a month on electricity from Duke energy, which translates to 960 a year. I could probably buy 2 12 volt Marine batteries for about 80 or 160 dollars one month. Without an inverter nothing much in the house will work. So the order of things is to buy an inverter, then batteries, then solar panels in recognition of non borrowed cash flow to run the home, in hopes of getting free of payments to a company that has an incentive to give less for more.

Ameren in Illinois got a big rate increase to improve their service after the big Illinois ice storm a little over a year ago, they promised to give more reliable service. We were without power for six day in parts of Illinois! This year we had another ice storm further west, and they are looking for an increase in the delivery rate. Missouri and Oklahoma were hit by an ice storm this year also. I am sure they are being hit up for increased rates to. Florida just had a huge outage that affected about a million people.

What we need is distributed energy. Smaller providers, all linked to support one another when there is a problem. Ideally, many individuals would be independent of the grid, yet able to feed excess electricty to the grid. Electric cars could be made ready to reverse their electrical flow to feed the grid temporarily when they don't need a full charge. This woud be very useful during extremely hot weather, or outages.

When I was working in the steel industry in cokemaking during the early years of the energy crisis, we sold all our captive coal mines just to meet the payroll. To the energy companies, for a song. They turned around and sold the coal back to us for a fortune.

These energy companies utilize windfall profits to purchase any competeing energy source or technology. Cant blaime them, it's good business. What bothers me is the underhanded involvement with politicians to circumvent the laws.

Nope. Solar cells can be built only a few different ways. A company can buy a (or a few) patents, but when those are superceded, that is it. So, nobody can sit on it, and control it. Classical silicon is different from polysilicon, from nonsilicon, from stirling etc.Controlling it sounds like somebody controlling roadbuilding on the basis of some patent.

Yep, blame the evil oil companies. They purposely buy solar panel companies, place the product on the open market, artificially raise prices to discourage potential customers from buying their product. For what, to purposely lose money on their investment? To protect what, oil? Most electricity here is generated through hydro, natural gas, or nuclear power.

Sometimes this forum cracks me up with its engineering insight.

Check out The Great American Streetcar Scandal on Wikipedia. General Motors, Firestone, Phillips Petroleum, and Standard Oil bought out the streetcars and then dismantled them. They were very far sighted. Expect no less from the Big Oil, Big Coal, and all their cronies. Streetcars were very efficient ways to get around cheaply. They were similar to subways, but weren't underground.

It is pretty interesting to see the vested interest bloggers downgrade whatever threatens their status quo industry. We need to be vigilant in our quest for the best upgrades and new technologies. We are facing a lot of inertia and a lot of people trying to oppose progress. They need to be exposed in every underhanded attempt to keep distributed energy from becoming a reality.

This may not be the major point of your article but electricity is mainly made (over 1/2) out of Coal - yes big dirty coal. Most of our Hydro power in the mid west comes from Canadian sources not form US sources. We in the US are tearing our dams down to save fish.

Fortunately out here in Arizona, we are not tearing down our dams and the fishing and water sports are great as well. But with the help of the Sierra Club, they did permenantly shut down the last coal burning electrical generating plant in the area, putting alot of Hopi/Navajo Indians mining the coal in northeastern Arizona out of work.

Now through the help of the Sierra Club, a very poor people lost their main source of revenue, while Southern California Edison gets to demolish the Laughlin, Nev plant and make a killing on selling the prime real estate located in the heart of this gambling paradise along the banks of the Colorado River.

Don't believe it. The tin hat brigade will take it as "Truth" though.

See freeenergynews.com . New story on the suppression of the EV1 by GM, and why they did it.

"Coal" is a great term for all the countries,because most of the electricity is come from that Coal.It costs a lot compare to other energy sources.But,it produces the carbon gas emissions in to the air and it damages the living things.Most of the environmentalists raising the question"Is there any thing to clean the Coal" and find the solution also.But that technology meets high cost.