WRT: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mukto-mona/message/49163
Dear Mr Ray,
N N Sachitanand is ignorant of current developments in solar
photovoltaic technology. There have been developments that have made
solar cells cheaper than before Eg: GE Global research's recent Nano
Photovoltaic breakthroughs, Sanyo and HelioVolt Corp's joint Copper
Indium Gallium Selenide thin film breakthrough, and, most prominently
Martin Aagesen's "nanoflake" breakthrough at the Niels Bohr Institute
at the University of Copenhagen. I am certain that in the fiercely
competitive workd of scientific research around the world, work is
being carried out in this area at several locations.There are some
very promising breakthroughs that are currently being commercialized
and it is not a question of when but of how soon these would be
available to the public. A simple Google search would have shown this and considerably more information to Sachitanand, as would have perusals of magazines like Popular Mechanics and Popular Science, for example.
But, Sachitanand continues without sparing even a word about solar thermal energy systems - these are merely generators where steam, for example, is produced using solar power instead of using coal or other fuel and this is then used to run a generator. There are large generators that have been set up in parts of the USA in Nevada and Arizona and in France an experimental system was used to melt scrap metal for recasting as early as the 1970s at Grenoble. All of these are applications which would otherwise use electricity generated by either fossil fuels or by
Additionally, Sachitanand is either foolish not to see the potential
of using solar powered water heaters and rice cookers in India and
the rest of South Asia, for example, to reduce the use of electricity
generated from the use of fossil fuels, or he hides this possibility
with devious intentions. I wonder who his employers are? That would
be very interesting to know.
Best wishes,
Mehul Kamdar
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