I apologize if I caused some misunderstanding earlier. I mean
the solar cells might one day be cheaper than electricity from oil.
Disregard the mass production part.
Well, the government is subsidizing the research to bring down
the costs of production. I would say that it is better in the long
run than blindly subsidizing a technology that is still rather high
costs as of now. And solar trees are things envisioned by a certain
govt agency (I forgot name at the moment), the one which is
subsidizing the research.
Instead of finding more ways to generate energy, another way
would be to ensure less energy being consumed. The things Singapore
are doing can be considered rather interesting, but whether other
countries are doing better in this area, I have not yet researched
enough to comment. I'm currently doing a report on sustainable
development (which includes energy). Perhaps I can post it when my
team finishes it?
With today
technology, the production of solar panel uses electricity
generated from fuel oil. Thus the cost
of producing the solar panel goes up when oil price rises.
Thus it is difficult to drastically
bring down the cost of producing solar panel. We need to find new way, new material, cheaper way
to convert solar energy to electricity.
Will like to see
your report on the Sustainable Development (including energy) in
due course.
I believe your
report will cover something global.
In Singapore, due to
the physical environment, limited land and sea mass, many forms of
renewable energy cannot be implemented effectively or meaningfully
eg wind energy, wave energy, tidal energy, etc. This is one of the reason why government is
concentrating on research into solar energy, which is in abundant
although we may not be able to effectively implement it in large
scale due to limited land mass. Give a
guess when Singapore can install a “true 1MW solar power
plant!”.
