SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN WRONG ON THE PRICE OF SOLAR

Can Solar Power Be Cheap? New technologies will be needed for photovoltaics to become cheap

David Biello, September 30, 2013 (Scientific American)

“…The primary ingredient of most solar panels is purified sand…[and enough] sunlight hits the Earth in an hour to provide all of humanity's energy needs for a year…[But] solar power [isn’t] cheap and abundan…[because] building a device capable of turning incoming photons into electricity isn't cheap…[and] installation and the cost of a solar system can still be more than $10 per watt of electricity produced…Of course, if all energy sources paid their full price, solar would be more competitive…If the health and environmental costs of coal or natural gas were included in their prices, suddenly solar might look a whole lot cheaper…” click here for more

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