{"id":1234,"date":"2011-12-03T11:27:02","date_gmt":"2011-12-03T16:27:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/12\/solar-is-coming-michael-noll.html"},"modified":"2011-12-03T11:27:02","modified_gmt":"2011-12-03T16:27:02","slug":"solar-is-coming-michael-noll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/12\/solar-is-coming-michael-noll.html","title":{"rendered":"Solar is coming —Michael Noll"},"content":{"rendered":"Received yesterday on\n\nSolar tipping point within a few years<\/a>. -jsq\n
\nIn line with comments made by\nSteven Chu:<\/a>\n

\n\n<\/a>\n\nSolar cheaper than fossil fuels in a decade, says Steven Chu<\/a>,\nby Christopher Mims, 3 November 2011.\n

\nSolar power will be cheaper than fossil fuels at some point between the end of this decade and 2026*, said U.S. Secretary of Energy Steven Chu\n<\/blockquote>\n

\nas well as a recent Op-Ed piece by Paul Krugman:\n

\n\nHere Comes Solar<\/a>\nby Paul Krugman, 6 November 2011.\n

\n\n<\/a>\n…progress in solar panels has been so dramatic and sustained that, as a blog post at Scientific American put it, \u201cthere\u2019s now frequent talk of a\n\n\u2018Moore\u2019s law\u2019 in solar energy<\/a>,\u201d\nwith prices adjusted for inflation falling around 7 percent a year.\n

\nThis has already led to rapid growth in solar installations, but even more change may be just around the corner. If the downward trend continues \u2014 and if anything it seems to be accelerating \u2014 we\u2019re just a few years from the point at which electricity from solar panels becomes cheaper than electricity generated by burning coal.\n

\nAnd if we priced coal-fired power right, taking into account the huge health and other costs it imposes, it\u2019s likely that we would already have passed that tipping point.\n<\/blockquote>\n

\n-Michael Noll\n<\/blockquote>\nI added the blockquotes and the Moore’s Law link. Seems to me physicist Sec. Chu must be looking only at the sticker price,\nwhile economist Krugman is also looking at other costs and at externalities not currently included in the sticker price, yet still costing us in other ways.\nAdd in the costs of wars for oil and I wonder how long ago solar already became cheaper than oil….\n

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