Electric power will be used to produce ethanol from cellulose (http://www.coskata.com). Hook up the plasma guns that make Syngas out of chaff, wood chips, waste paper or medical waste to a nuclear power plant and use the excess overnight capacity to create the Syngas. During the day (and night) feed it into the bioreactor and produce ethanol. Its a synthetic light/dark cycle. Use this fuel to run plug-in hybrids with nano-solar thin film PV on their skins that are recharged off the grid overnight. All public transportation switched to electricity run off nuclear power, trains, buses etc.

That may be so. It’s fine to disagree. The discussion is more important.

I understand your point on marginal differences. But here is the problem, you are basing your dicussion on only solar PVs.

Please check this out on Concentrated Solar Power.
http://worldisgreen.com/2008/04/16/solar-thermal-electricity-humanitys-saviour/

CSP (also search on google) has a lot more potential than PV.

Firstly, it stores the sun’s energy as heat. And heat is 100 times cheaper to store than electricity. Second, it is easy to transfer heat from one place to another through water or special oils.

With the ability to store and distribute, it clearly triumphs the normal solar PV issues of daytime, clouds etc.

However, that does not mean we need to rule out solar. Solar PV is only one way of doing it. There are many other innovative ideas that are being tested and coming out.

I believe Solar can and will provide the most carbon free energy in the world in the coming decades.

I think there is more potential in solar that you are thinking about. It is tough, but the potential is there.

Please check this out on Concentrated Solar Power.
http://worldisgreen.com/2008/04/16/solar-thermal-electricity-humanitys-saviour/

Also, search on google.

Cheers

Solar-fanboys use statements such as “India’s theoretical solar power reception, just on its land area, is about 5 EWh/year”

Very good. How do you intend to capture all this solar power ? Cover up the whole land surface with solar panels ? With jatropha plants ?

It is time to grow up and think like reasonable adults.

Do check my comment on this blog, or better, visit my blog directly.

With about 200 clear sunny days in a year, India’s theoretical solar power reception, just on its land area, is about 5 EWh/year (i.e. = 5000 trillion kWh/yr ~ 600 TW).[1] [2] The daily average solar energy incident over India varies from 4 to 7 kWh/m2 with about 2300 – 3200 sunshine hours per year, depending upon location.[1] This is far more than current total energy consumption. For example, even assuming 10% conversion efficiency for PV modules, it will still be thousand times greater than the likely electricity demand in India by the year 2015

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