Comments on: Only (democratic and green) cities can save us from climate catastrophe https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/only-democratic-and-green-cities-can-save-us-from-climate-catastrophe/2009/02/17 Researching, documenting and promoting peer to peer practices Wed, 18 Feb 2009 23:54:23 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.5.15 By: P2P Foundation » Blog Archive » Can distributed renewable energy solve the energy crisis, right now??? https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/only-democratic-and-green-cities-can-save-us-from-climate-catastrophe/2009/02/17/comment-page-1#comment-380301 Wed, 18 Feb 2009 23:54:23 +0000 http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/?p=2444#comment-380301 […] who will have read Mike Davis take on global warming, may be convinced that our efforts in renewable energy and carbon capping are […]

]]> By: Michel Bauwens https://blog.p2pfoundation.net/only-democratic-and-green-cities-can-save-us-from-climate-catastrophe/2009/02/17/comment-page-1#comment-377204 Thu, 12 Feb 2009 07:11:57 +0000 http://blog.p2pfoundation.net/?p=2444#comment-377204 A reaction from Vinay Gupta:

http://nanosolar.com

Panel cost of manufacture is said to be $0.30 per watt.

Panel cost at retail is around $1.

Price of a machine which will print panels: $0.16 per panel per year.

There’s no energy crisis. If we work on scaling plastic solar panel manufacture, we’ll cut human CO2 emissions by 40% (the proportion currently produced by coal) in 20 years because it will simply be uneconomic to keep the coal plants burning.

Really, seriously, it’s time to focus on solutions, and that’s not about people whining about behavior change and regulation, it’s about taking the technologies which will sort it out and getting them into terawatt-scale mass production as fast as possible.

We have a solution. It’s done. Let’s get people informed.

Vinay

PS: http://konarka.com thinks their panels will be about 1/3 the price of nanosolar. In about a year or so we’ll see if they can deliver on that.

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