Plus & Minus

Natcore Technologies Inc have developed ‘Absolute black’ – a solar cell which has an efficiency of 99.7% – 3.7% higher than the previous best – but more importantly with a production cost of half previous cells. Such cells will be more than a match f

or hydrocarbons and will gradually replace them where they can.

The introduction of compressed air cars in India soon will be an alternative to electric cars, without heavy expensive limited life batteries. And with air cylinders that will be as good in 10 years as day 1 – for which their air can be compressed by solar powered compressors.

By the end of the year 850M people around the world will be paying for polluting by some form of carbon tax – 12% of humanity.

Against that – the U.S. has become the world’s fastest growing oil and gas producer, it will soon be self-sufficient in oil and it is already a net petroleum product exporter. As Hydrocarbon prices fall – the more they will be burned, despite the consensus that CO2 is increasing & is man-made.

One of the first symptoms of the resulting world distress is expected to be water.”SolarWater” is coming along – & by making fresh water, from salt water or polluted water by low temperature distillation & sterilising it – all purely powered by the sun, this may help.