Comments on: New Concentrated Solar Tech: Simple, Cheap and Efficient http://cleantechnica.com/2008/09/04/new-concentrated-solar-tech-simple-cheap-and-efficient/ Clean Tech News & Views: Solar Energy News. Wind Energy News. EV News. & More. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 13:53:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Fish and Solar Cells will Co-Exist in Pyron’s New Concentrated Solar Project : CleanTechnica http://cleantechnica.com/2008/09/04/new-concentrated-solar-tech-simple-cheap-and-efficient/#comment-1834 Fish and Solar Cells will Co-Exist in Pyron’s New Concentrated Solar Project : CleanTechnica Tue, 27 Oct 2009 22:52:10 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=1015#comment-1834 [...] lower cost and higher efficiency of concentrated solar as the shortest route to the mass market.  Morgan Solar of Toronto has developed a concentrated solar technology based on thin sheets of acrylic, and [...] [...] lower cost and higher efficiency of concentrated solar as the shortest route to the mass market.  Morgan Solar of Toronto has developed a concentrated solar technology based on thin sheets of acrylic, and [...]

]]> By: Mike http://cleantechnica.com/2008/09/04/new-concentrated-solar-tech-simple-cheap-and-efficient/#comment-1833 Mike Fri, 19 Sep 2008 02:14:12 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=1015#comment-1833 There a number of companies that have already commericialized the CPV technology and are selling and installing the systems today. The heat problem has already been solved. If you want to learn more, go to Emcore.com, unenergy.org, solfocus, isofoton, etc.. or just do a simple google search on CPV solar - Morgan's technology is not unique or new, it is late. What is unfortunate is that our juvenile legislators are bickering at each other, trying to preserve big oil tax breaks, and letting solar and wind energy tax credits expire at the end of this year while hundreds of millions of investment and R&D dollars and thousands of jobs related to the solar energy sector are already moving offshore where the legislative and tax climate is much more favorable. Blog about that instead of companies that are a day late and a dollar short to the party. Keep in mind that previous wind energy tax credits have driven investments in the sector that have now dropped the cost per Kwh in half or better. There a number of companies that have already commericialized the CPV technology and are selling and installing the systems today. The heat problem has already been solved. If you want to learn more, go to Emcore.com, unenergy.org, solfocus, isofoton, etc.. or just do a simple google search on CPV solar – Morgan’s technology is not unique or new, it is late. What is unfortunate is that our juvenile legislators are bickering at each other, trying to preserve big oil tax breaks, and letting solar and wind energy tax credits expire at the end of this year while hundreds of millions of investment and R&D dollars and thousands of jobs related to the solar energy sector are already moving offshore where the legislative and tax climate is much more favorable. Blog about that instead of companies that are a day late and a dollar short to the party. Keep in mind that previous wind energy tax credits have driven investments in the sector that have now dropped the cost per Kwh in half or better.

]]> By: Mike http://cleantechnica.com/2008/09/04/new-concentrated-solar-tech-simple-cheap-and-efficient/#comment-19318 Mike Fri, 19 Sep 2008 02:14:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=1015#comment-19318 There a number of companies that have already commericialized the CPV technology and are selling and installing the systems today. The heat problem has already been solved. If you want to learn more, go to Emcore.com, unenergy.org, solfocus, isofoton, etc.. or just do a simple google search on CPV solar - Morgan's technology is not unique or new, it is late. What is unfortunate is that our juvenile legislators are bickering at each other, trying to preserve big oil tax breaks, and letting solar and wind energy tax credits expire at the end of this year while hundreds of millions of investment and R&D dollars and thousands of jobs related to the solar energy sector are already moving offshore where the legislative and tax climate is much more favorable. Blog about that instead of companies that are a day late and a dollar short to the party. Keep in mind that previous wind energy tax credits have driven investments in the sector that have now dropped the cost per Kwh in half or better. There a number of companies that have already commericialized the CPV technology and are selling and installing the systems today. The heat problem has already been solved. If you want to learn more, go to Emcore.com, unenergy.org, solfocus, isofoton, etc.. or just do a simple google search on CPV solar – Morgan’s technology is not unique or new, it is late. What is unfortunate is that our juvenile legislators are bickering at each other, trying to preserve big oil tax breaks, and letting solar and wind energy tax credits expire at the end of this year while hundreds of millions of investment and R&D dollars and thousands of jobs related to the solar energy sector are already moving offshore where the legislative and tax climate is much more favorable. Blog about that instead of companies that are a day late and a dollar short to the party. Keep in mind that previous wind energy tax credits have driven investments in the sector that have now dropped the cost per Kwh in half or better.

]]> By: Mike http://cleantechnica.com/2008/09/04/new-concentrated-solar-tech-simple-cheap-and-efficient/#comment-19319 Mike Fri, 19 Sep 2008 02:14:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=1015#comment-19319 There a number of companies that have already commericialized the CPV technology and are selling and installing the systems today. The heat problem has already been solved. If you want to learn more, go to Emcore.com, unenergy.org, solfocus, isofoton, etc.. or just do a simple google search on CPV solar - Morgan's technology is not unique or new, it is late. What is unfortunate is that our juvenile legislators are bickering at each other, trying to preserve big oil tax breaks, and letting solar and wind energy tax credits expire at the end of this year while hundreds of millions of investment and R&D dollars and thousands of jobs related to the solar energy sector are already moving offshore where the legislative and tax climate is much more favorable. Blog about that instead of companies that are a day late and a dollar short to the party. Keep in mind that previous wind energy tax credits have driven investments in the sector that have now dropped the cost per Kwh in half or better. There a number of companies that have already commericialized the CPV technology and are selling and installing the systems today. The heat problem has already been solved. If you want to learn more, go to Emcore.com, unenergy.org, solfocus, isofoton, etc.. or just do a simple google search on CPV solar – Morgan’s technology is not unique or new, it is late. What is unfortunate is that our juvenile legislators are bickering at each other, trying to preserve big oil tax breaks, and letting solar and wind energy tax credits expire at the end of this year while hundreds of millions of investment and R&D dollars and thousands of jobs related to the solar energy sector are already moving offshore where the legislative and tax climate is much more favorable. Blog about that instead of companies that are a day late and a dollar short to the party. Keep in mind that previous wind energy tax credits have driven investments in the sector that have now dropped the cost per Kwh in half or better.

]]> By: Guy Gordon http://cleantechnica.com/2008/09/04/new-concentrated-solar-tech-simple-cheap-and-efficient/#comment-1832 Guy Gordon Thu, 18 Sep 2008 23:00:15 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=1015#comment-1832 Actually, there are no quantum particles. Things are a lot easier when you stop trying to shoehorn the subatomic into preconceived categories. Thinking of electrons as little green billiard balls orbiting a lumpy red nucleus only leads to confusion. Let the equations dictate what the theory describes. In the case of QFT, the equations describe a continuous field. Excitations of the field travel as waves. Energy transfer (ie interaction) is allowed only in discreet qunta. The "particles" we're used to only appear when boundary conditions are applied (such as the particle in a box) But the particle is just a fiction. What really exists is the field, and the energy. The real quantum mystery is not how a "particle" can be in two places at once. A wave is not so localized. The mystery is how the energy gets "concentrated" again in an interaction. How are conservation laws "enforced"? If you simply *must* think of quantum entities as real particles or waves, pretend they travel as waves and interact as particles. Actually, there are no quantum particles.

Things are a lot easier when you stop trying to shoehorn the subatomic into preconceived categories. Thinking of electrons as little green billiard balls orbiting a lumpy red nucleus only leads to confusion.

Let the equations dictate what the theory describes. In the case of QFT, the equations describe a continuous field. Excitations of the field travel as waves. Energy transfer (ie interaction) is allowed only in discreet qunta.

The “particles” we’re used to only appear when boundary conditions are applied (such as the particle in a box) But the particle is just a fiction. What really exists is the field, and the energy.

The real quantum mystery is not how a “particle” can be in two places at once. A wave is not so localized. The mystery is how the energy gets “concentrated” again in an interaction. How are conservation laws “enforced”?

If you simply *must* think of quantum entities as real particles or waves, pretend they travel as waves and interact as particles.

]]> By: Guy Gordon http://cleantechnica.com/2008/09/04/new-concentrated-solar-tech-simple-cheap-and-efficient/#comment-19316 Guy Gordon Thu, 18 Sep 2008 23:00:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=1015#comment-19316 Actually, there are no quantum particles. Things are a lot easier when you stop trying to shoehorn the subatomic into preconceived categories. Thinking of electrons as little green billiard balls orbiting a lumpy red nucleus only leads to confusion. Let the equations dictate what the theory describes. In the case of QFT, the equations describe a continuous field. Excitations of the field travel as waves. Energy transfer (ie interaction) is allowed only in discreet qunta. The "particles" we're used to only appear when boundary conditions are applied (such as the particle in a box) But the particle is just a fiction. What really exists is the field, and the energy. The real quantum mystery is not how a "particle" can be in two places at once. A wave is not so localized. The mystery is how the energy gets "concentrated" again in an interaction. How are conservation laws "enforced"? If you simply *must* think of quantum entities as real particles or waves, pretend they travel as waves and interact as particles. Actually, there are no quantum particles.

Things are a lot easier when you stop trying to shoehorn the subatomic into preconceived categories. Thinking of electrons as little green billiard balls orbiting a lumpy red nucleus only leads to confusion.

Let the equations dictate what the theory describes. In the case of QFT, the equations describe a continuous field. Excitations of the field travel as waves. Energy transfer (ie interaction) is allowed only in discreet qunta.

The “particles” we’re used to only appear when boundary conditions are applied (such as the particle in a box) But the particle is just a fiction. What really exists is the field, and the energy.

The real quantum mystery is not how a “particle” can be in two places at once. A wave is not so localized. The mystery is how the energy gets “concentrated” again in an interaction. How are conservation laws “enforced”?

If you simply *must* think of quantum entities as real particles or waves, pretend they travel as waves and interact as particles.

]]> By: Guy Gordon http://cleantechnica.com/2008/09/04/new-concentrated-solar-tech-simple-cheap-and-efficient/#comment-19317 Guy Gordon Thu, 18 Sep 2008 23:00:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=1015#comment-19317 Actually, there are no quantum particles. Things are a lot easier when you stop trying to shoehorn the subatomic into preconceived categories. Thinking of electrons as little green billiard balls orbiting a lumpy red nucleus only leads to confusion. Let the equations dictate what the theory describes. In the case of QFT, the equations describe a continuous field. Excitations of the field travel as waves. Energy transfer (ie interaction) is allowed only in discreet qunta. The "particles" we're used to only appear when boundary conditions are applied (such as the particle in a box) But the particle is just a fiction. What really exists is the field, and the energy. The real quantum mystery is not how a "particle" can be in two places at once. A wave is not so localized. The mystery is how the energy gets "concentrated" again in an interaction. How are conservation laws "enforced"? If you simply *must* think of quantum entities as real particles or waves, pretend they travel as waves and interact as particles. Actually, there are no quantum particles.

Things are a lot easier when you stop trying to shoehorn the subatomic into preconceived categories. Thinking of electrons as little green billiard balls orbiting a lumpy red nucleus only leads to confusion.

Let the equations dictate what the theory describes. In the case of QFT, the equations describe a continuous field. Excitations of the field travel as waves. Energy transfer (ie interaction) is allowed only in discreet qunta.

The “particles” we’re used to only appear when boundary conditions are applied (such as the particle in a box) But the particle is just a fiction. What really exists is the field, and the energy.

The real quantum mystery is not how a “particle” can be in two places at once. A wave is not so localized. The mystery is how the energy gets “concentrated” again in an interaction. How are conservation laws “enforced”?

If you simply *must* think of quantum entities as real particles or waves, pretend they travel as waves and interact as particles.

]]> By: Page http://cleantechnica.com/2008/09/04/new-concentrated-solar-tech-simple-cheap-and-efficient/#comment-1831 Page Tue, 09 Sep 2008 18:45:26 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=1015#comment-1831 This is good. I think a lot of people are interested in renewable energy. My question is what needs to be done for these systems to be subsidized and installed everywhere? Who wants to step up and sponsor solar energy so everyone can be making their own emission free energy? This is good. I think a lot of people are interested in renewable energy. My question is what needs to be done for these systems to be subsidized and installed everywhere? Who wants to step up and sponsor solar energy so everyone can be making their own emission free energy?

]]> By: Page http://cleantechnica.com/2008/09/04/new-concentrated-solar-tech-simple-cheap-and-efficient/#comment-19314 Page Tue, 09 Sep 2008 18:45:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=1015#comment-19314 This is good. I think a lot of people are interested in renewable energy. My question is what needs to be done for these systems to be subsidized and installed everywhere? Who wants to step up and sponsor solar energy so everyone can be making their own emission free energy? This is good. I think a lot of people are interested in renewable energy. My question is what needs to be done for these systems to be subsidized and installed everywhere? Who wants to step up and sponsor solar energy so everyone can be making their own emission free energy?

]]> By: Page http://cleantechnica.com/2008/09/04/new-concentrated-solar-tech-simple-cheap-and-efficient/#comment-19315 Page Tue, 09 Sep 2008 18:45:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=1015#comment-19315 This is good. I think a lot of people are interested in renewable energy. My question is what needs to be done for these systems to be subsidized and installed everywhere? Who wants to step up and sponsor solar energy so everyone can be making their own emission free energy? This is good. I think a lot of people are interested in renewable energy. My question is what needs to be done for these systems to be subsidized and installed everywhere? Who wants to step up and sponsor solar energy so everyone can be making their own emission free energy?

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