Re: PV Energy Breakeven Time (Was: Re: Solar constant)

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From: Will Stewart
Date: Mon, 01 Jan 1996 00:00

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In <4butck$9dj@schweik.hal.COM> robk@hal.COM (Robert Kleinschmidt)
writes: 

>Only claim I had ever seen for energy payback was something on the
>order of ~10 years for single-crystal down to ~1.? years for
thin-film.

Solarex buys refined silicon from the electronics industry (rejects
and/or ingot ends), reducing the energy input they require to produce
the cells (one engineer there told me the payback period dropped to 2
years).  Of course, the silicon does require energy input at the
microprocessor plant.

Will Stewart

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From: will1000@ix.netcom.com (Will Stewart )
Subject: Re: PV Energy Breakeven Time (Was: Re: Solar constant)
Date: 1996/01/01
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