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This Week in Solar: Thin-Film Players Steal Spotlight

The bottom line to commerical rooftop solar is electrical production per unit area. Thin film requires about double the space as silicon for a like amount of production. Unless solyndra has somehow leap-frogged that long time spatial technlogical issue, it's hard to figure what's causing all the excitment. What would help their cause is a comparion of a typical 1000 sq ft area fitted with solyndra collectors compared to standard power silicon, high powered silicon or perhaps even double sided panels from sanyo. I'm thinking the spatial problem still exists but solyndra has an easier mounting system for flat roofs especially regarding wind. It's important to note that differentiator but to separate it from wishful thinking and other guesswork.

Bill Mandating 25% of U.S. Energy from Renewables by 2025 Introduced in House

a national RPS is mostly rhetoric and doesn't make a lot of sense. There are already RPS' in place in most of the states so another federal bureaucracy to measure what's already being done elsewhere simply makes no sense. And the job creation numbers are too bogus to even address. Solar PV capacity will be greater than demand beginning this year so prices will drop, possibly precipitously over the next 5 years so those that pass the 'fogged mirror' test should think about buying soon. Wind turbines already make a lot of sense at the large scale and now the small scale is rapidly gaining acceptance economically .. etc etc. Market force momentum is already in force so we should back off more worthless politicing. Let's give Calif and Maryland their awards for renewables incentive innovation in the past 10 years - they got things going and now the payoff is on the way.