Nanosolar Creates Largest Thin-Film Tool

Nanosolar’s new 1GW tool seems to be saying “Yes We Can”.  Nanosolar CIGS could become the single greatest achievement of our time.

Steve Pluvia

Wow! I’m buying one of the half-dozen battery electric cars that will go on sale in 2010; now I’ll be able to go totally zero emissions with a rooftop Nano PV setup, and quit paying my utility to burn coal!

you will never see this product in our hands.Why do you think power companys are investing so much?So every one can have cheap energy,not need them and put them out of the biz?Please.Wake up and quit living in a f*king pipe dream.I so sick of hearing about all this green bullsh*t.We will never haveheap energy from home and we wont all be driving EVs around with EEstors Battery.The people with money and power ARE NOT GOING TO GIVE IT UP!Wake the f*k up people.The rich will stay rich and the poor will stay poor.Congrats to the rich people that can spend 30,000 dollars on solar for the top of their Million dollar plus homes,so they can show every one how easy it is to go green.F**k off

Toadman, if you bothered to take off your tin foil hat, you’d see the guy who killed the electric car on the grassy knoll pointing a loaded nanosolar pv panel at your pie hole.

Business firms exist to make profits, but profits are going to be reduced if EV’s replace the ICE car. Much of our economy is based on the automobile, and its upkeep. Almost every business is related in some way to the car. What will happen to employment if the need to service a car is reduced?
What happens to Midas, Pepboys, Kragen’s, smog check, AMCO, gas stations, Jiffylube, general service repair centers, the manufacturing plants that fabricate repair parts, the UPS people that deliver the parts, the corner deli or Taco Bells frequented by those firm’s workers at lunchtime? What about government agencies that depend on collecting all manner of tax revenue from the above interlinked economy?
If people understand this scenario, then they will understand why they can’t yet buy an EV from the legacy business infrastructure. Only recently can one sniff the scent of a potential EV from upstart EV boutique manufacturers like Tesla (too costly for mass production partly because they hand-solder a battery pack of 6000 Lithium AA sized cells together in series-parallel groups), Aptera, BugE, etc., because a startup company does not need to address the risk that a service-free vehicle will parasitically affect revenue from other parts of its company.
Curiously, Nissan’s CEO has advocated a pure EV but I have a hard time believing he really will build one and that the announcement is mostly PR in nature.
What could replace displaced jobs from the ICE economy? Anyone who has flown from California to Florida has seen that most of the American land in between is empty and that a sizable portion of it is desert-like with plenty of sun exposure. This land could be loaded with massive solar and energy storage farms. This would employ a sizable workforce to build and then to maintain them. Solar farms could be photovoltaic or solar thermal. Energy storage, for evening power delivery, could be networks of batteries, massive flywheel generators, or pumped water elevated reservoirs for hydro power generation. Costly? Yes enormously so, but so was the Manhattan Project and so is the Iraq war, national ventures not undertaken for profit and thus cost justification. How much of the above could have already been built with the funds spent in Iraq? Some people advocate nuclear power, but I would encourage solar as being risk-free. One exciting company in my city of San Jose, Nanosolar http://www.nanosolar.com/ seems to have developed solar photovoltaic panels at 1/10 the existing cost. They can print them off like sheets of a newspaper.

One interesting emerging EV contender is the Chinese and their unstoppable manufacturing base. Google the ?Miles EV? and ?Thunder Sky?  Lithium battery (which can replace the suppressed NiMH battery. Google ?95 AH Large Format NiMH battery? to see that a 30 million dollar lawsuit dismantled the Panasonic plant that built these batteries that gave the Toyota Rav4 EV more than 100 miles of highway speed range- 10 years ago). The Chinese don?t have any obligations to any western business or oil cartel. Although they are importing oil at increasing rates, I think they are taking steps to limit dependency on oil by mass producing EVs. A $4000 Lithium powered highway speed scooter motorcycle just appeared from China: the ?XM-3500Li? You can buy it now online.