http://cleantechnica.com/2012/05/10/solar-pv-at-the-crossroads-europe-leads-china-us-emerging-markets-need-to-pick-up-the-ball/ Clean Tech News & Views: Solar Energy News. Wind Energy News. EV News. & More. Tue, 30 Dec 2014 18:14:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.1 http://cleantechnica.com/2012/05/10/solar-pv-at-the-crossroads-europe-leads-china-us-emerging-markets-need-to-pick-up-the-ball/#comment-125959 Sat, 07 Jul 2012 11:18:00 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=37860#comment-125959 If this rate can be sustained even for just 5 more years, then global cumulative output would be 1TW (with yearly production quite comparable).  This is the equivalent of 1KW of energy per person, for a billion people. Even if this took 10 years (till 2022) to achieve, the implications would be huge. This is a really short period of time. The implications would mean a real zero-emissions electric car (aside from manufacturing cost of the car + manufacturing cost of PV cells – which will then be non-CO2 emissions). The only other issue will be energy storage density (mostly for vehicles/aircraft).

]]> http://cleantechnica.com/2012/05/10/solar-pv-at-the-crossroads-europe-leads-china-us-emerging-markets-need-to-pick-up-the-ball/#comment-120700 Fri, 11 May 2012 12:17:12 +0000 http://cleantechnica.com/?p=37860#comment-120700 […] solar PV capacity doubled in 2011. Progress toward grid parity has been exceptionally rapid, but government support is critical if […]

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