Obama primary opponent Bob Greene: Calif. man has energy plan for U.S. for next 1000 years

[kristopher]

29. "to build the largest manufacturing industry in the history of mankind"

"The science is understood.

The material is abundant.

The products work.

All that is left is to build the largest manufacturing industry in the history of mankind.

This is what we intend to do."

Ovshinsky: I can show now that we can achieve solar energy, with good profit, at a cost less than that of burning of fossil fuel. That is a revolutionary statement, and it can’t be done overnight, but it can and will be done. The plant would be an ordinary-sized plant of 150,000 square feet which would put out a photovoltaic product of one gigawatt per year. Unless we start making a gigawatt in many plants, the cost of photovoltaics will never get down to the cost of coal— which is what global society needs.

This can be done with proper support in no more than several years. The cost of the production machine will be a few pennies per watt, $350 million at the most. I’ve proven in the past that the first machine always costs more than the subsequent ones. When you go into a high enough volume production, all costs come down in the steepest decline that you can think of. And you want to build as many machines as possible in every city in every country."

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That deserved repeating. Thanks.