Reply #193: And that is a meaningful metric because....

[kristopher]

It sounds good?

1 GW worth of panels/year and each panel will last 40 years. Run the factory for 20 years for 20 GW. Facility cost? 3/4 billion dollars.
So for the price of one nuclear plant that might start generating in 15 years, we can build 14 plants like this in one year and produce 14 GWs of panels per year for 20 years.

For the entire 50 billion we could build 67 of them.

67 plants producing 1 GW worth of panels per year times 20 years = 1340GW of capacity.
Feel free to figure out how that works out in kwh of electricity delivered.
http://www.nanosolar.com/technology


Unless you want to figure it out, I've let production costs for the panels balance out the operating, fuel and disposal costs for nuclear.





Sharp Announces New Thin-Film Solar Cell Plant in Sakai; Horizontal Deployment of Thin-Film Technology for TFT LCDs, Annual Production Capacity on 1 GW Scale.
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Tokyo, Japan, Mar 27, 2008 - (JCN Newswire) - Sharp Corporation has made a total capital investment of approximately 72 billion yen to build a thin-film solar cell plant in Sakai, Osaka Prefecture that is capable of boosting annual production up to a scale of 1 GW per year.

Production will begin by March 2010 with a 480 MW initial production capacity for solar cells. Combined with the 160 MW capacity of the Katsuragi Plant (Nara Prefecture), this will expand Sharp's global total production capacity for thin-film solar cells to 1 GW in April 2010.