{"id":2279,"date":"2011-03-24T13:15:47","date_gmt":"2011-03-24T17:15:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/03\/the-plummeting-cost-of-solar-electricity.html"},"modified":"2011-03-24T13:15:47","modified_gmt":"2011-03-24T17:15:47","slug":"the-plummeting-cost-of-solar-electricity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2011\/03\/the-plummeting-cost-of-solar-electricity.html","title":{"rendered":"The plummeting cost of solar electricity"},"content":{"rendered":"Computers are so small and cheap these days that the phone in your pocket\nhas more computing power than the biggest corporate computers of a few decades\nago.\nA similar phenomenon is driving down the cost of solar electricity.\nRamez Naam writes in ScientificAmerican,\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/blog\/post.cfm?id=smaller-cheaper-faster-does-moores-2011-03-15\">\nSmaller, cheaper, faster: Does Moore&#8217;s law apply to solar cells?<\/a>\nHere&#8217;s a summary in one diagram:\n<p align=\"center\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/blog\/post.cfm?id=smaller-cheaper-faster-does-moores-2011-03-15\">\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border:none;\"  src=\"http:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/media\/inline\/blog\/Image\/naam-solar-moore_s-law-5.jpg\"><\/a>\n<p>\nSolar may not be the most affordable power source today, but wait a few\nyears and it will be.\nOr get on with organizing the political and corporate structures\nto be ready.\nIn sunny south Georgia, solar is our best bet.\n<p>\n-jsq\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Computers are so small and cheap these days that the phone in your pocket has more computing power than the biggest corporate computers of a few decades ago. A similar phenomenon is driving down the cost of solar electricity. Ramez Naam writes in ScientificAmerican, Smaller, cheaper, faster: Does Moore&#8217;s law apply to solar cells? Here&#8217;s [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[14,289,24],"tags":[2061,25,1026,4863,8714],"class_list":["post-2279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economy","category-science","category-solar","tag-electricity","tag-moores-law","tag-photovoltaic","tag-scientificamerican","tag-solar"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p585fK-AL","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2279\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}