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Solar breakthrough could suddenly make solar power cost effective

Wednesday, October 01, 2003 by: Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor
Key concepts: Solar power, Solar cells and Natural health

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The solar power question has always been an economic one: how much will it cost to "go solar?" The answer for many years has been a simple one: investing in solar equipment has a twenty-year payoff, give or take a few years.

This breakthrough could change all that, bringing the solar payoff into the 3 - 5 year range. At that point, solar power suddenly makes good economic sense. It might even attract the kind of investment necessary to create large-scale solar farms that feed power into the grid at a fraction of the cost of coal, wind or natural gas.

But is all this for real? That will take time to see. Without question, there's a tremendous amount of research focused on solving the solar power economic conundrum, and it's only a matter of time before someone comes up with a way to manufacture solar cells that have a much higher performance-to-cost ratio.

About the author: Mike Adams is a holistic nutritionist with a passion for teaching people how to improve their health He has authored more than 1,500 articles and dozens of reports, guides and interviews on natural health topics, reaching millions of readers with information that is saving lives and improving personal health around the world. Adams is an honest, independent journalist and accepts no money or commissions on the third-party products he writes about or the companies he promotes. In 2007, Adams launched EcoLEDs, a maker of energy efficient LED lights that greatly reduce CO2 emissions. He's also a veteran of the software technology industry, having founded a personalized mass email software product used to deliver email newsletters to subscribers. Adams volunteers his time to serve as the executive director of the Consumer Wellness Center, a 501(c)3 non-profit organization, and pursues hobbies such as Pilates, Capoeira, nature macrophotography and organic gardening. Known by his callsign, the 'Health Ranger,' Adams posts his missions statements, health statistics and health photos at www.HealthRanger.org


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