Horace
First Solar is shipping product from factories in the US, Asia, and
Germany. Their projections are very real numbers.
Then solarbuzz must have included them in the survey, right?
or ... Can you get a firm quote on *current* prices -- which Solarbuzz
presumably has missed ?
BTW Infinia's Corp - Solar Stirling Products "for the home" will be
available "soon now" and they are potentially installable without
professional help. I didn't try to save money on shingles by doing
roofing, and am not going on the roof for solar either, but I can set a
post in concrete.
http://www.infiniacorp.com/applications/clean_energy.htm
- and these are not exactly eyesores either ... "attractive works of
art that produce clean electricity," according to them. Riiiight.
Depends on who's hype do you want to believe...
With a net system efficiency of over 24% "Infinia's generators will
produce up to twice as many kilowatt-hours of electricity than
similarly-sized PV systems."
This is a very important point. Can it be disputed? I cannot find any
refutation of it. Tracking the sun does that for you.
This would indicate that to match the "net energy" from a 3 kW Stirling
will require a 6 kW PV system. That is, if one wishes to compare
apples-to-apples... and with much less installation cost, well I know
where my sentiments are leaning now.
Needless to say... if the self-appointed experts and Vortician
commentators cannot agree (or even come close), then it should be an
interesting sales contest next year and beyond when nanoPV mets
Stirling ...
Jones
