Cassandra's Legacy: Gandhi on solar energy

Thursday, April 24, 2014

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
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First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win. (Gandhi)

First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
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First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
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JoeApril 24, 2014 at 6:57 PM
Why in the world does this chart have PV being priced by mmbtu rather that levelized cost of electricity? MMbtu might be appropriate for water heating, but not for electricity.

The proper comparison would be between the cost of electricity from PV and the energy only component (excluding capacity) of cost of electricity from the various fossil sources. By this measure PV is still twice as expensive as gas fired combined cycle (per US EIA via Wikipedia) and has no dispatchability.

I live off-grid on PV and love it, but charts like the one above are misleading at best.
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Gregor ArnoldDecember 15, 2014 at 10:23 AM
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Gregor ArnoldDecember 16, 2014 at 11:48 PM
What is the difference, if all energy sources presented at the chart, use same measurement units? And that falling curve in the 2003/13 would not change it's direction, nor it's angle towards the axis. home page Even if we turn to cost of electricity as a method of comparison, I doubt it we would see much of a change.
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