gnm wrote:"you won't have to get down on your hands and knees to find a plug" - what kind of idiotic statement is that? Does he plan on doing away with AC?
Clouseau2 wrote:gnm wrote:"you won't have to get down on your hands and knees to find a plug" - what kind of idiotic statement is that? Does he plan on doing away with AC?
Read the article again, he's talking about adding a small solar cell to a phone cheaply so that it charges in sunlight.
Like a solar powered calculator.
gnm wrote:"you won't have to get down on your hands and knees to find a plug" - what kind of idiotic statement is that? Does he plan on doing away with AC?
lardlad wrote:gnm wrote:"you won't have to get down on your hands and knees to find a plug" - what kind of idiotic statement is that? Does he plan on doing away with AC?
Poor reading comprehension is a terrible thing. The statement you deride was in connection with powering laptop computers, which run on DC.
gnm wrote:Germanys massive PV plant will do nothing to offset the kind of power they use. Thats why I would say it is a boondoggle. Its not a real solution. PV works best at the usage site because you will lose power in distributing it. So basically they are wasting a bunch of PV's on heating miles of power line....
-G
zoidberg wrote:...to get people to start building and installing PV systems it has to be profitable right?
gnm wrote:but we must first remove subsidies that blind us to the real effectiveness of the application.
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