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by lutusp 4306 days ago
> A piece about 1cm square costs $200 or more. Solar panels need square meters of the stuff.

Excuse me, but what planet are you posting from? Your claim above suggests that a monocrystalline silicon solar panel that's of average size (120 by 54 cm), 6480 sq. cm., should cost $200 per square centimeter, or 1.3 million dollars. In fact, such a panel costs $168.50:

http://www.aliexpress.com/item/200W-100W-X-2PCS-monocrystall...

> People in fact don't buy them - except when they get subsidies that artificially reduce the price.

All your claims have been falsified using readily available evidence.

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> Your claim

It wasn't MY claim, it was the poster above me.

I was saying his comparison was absurd. Obviously it doesn't cost that much.