Remove Cheap Remove Chinese Remove Power Remove Taiwan
article thumbnail

Utility solar dethrones coal as the cheapest power source in Asia

Baua Electric

Source: Wood Mackenzie Asia Pacific Power & Renewable Services According to Wood Mackenzie’s latest analysis of the levelized cost of electricity (LCOE) for the Asia Pacific (APAC) region, the LCOE from renewables reached a historic low in 2023. As a result, utility solar is now the cheapest power source in 11 out of 15 APAC countries.

Asia 52
article thumbnail

Perspective: Despite Solyndra’s death, the future of solar energy is sunny

Green Car Congress

by Steven Pleging, CEO/President of Quantum Solar Power Corp. With subsidies long in place for nuclear, coal and gas in the US along with the cheap cost of production for coal and natural gas, solar is essentially competing with that $0.10/kWh Steven Pleging is CEO/President of Quantum Solar Power Corp. , Resources. [

Solar 246
article thumbnail

Who Really Invented the Thumb Drive?

Cars That Think

The gadget, roughly the size of a pack of chewing gum, held 8 megabytes of data and required no external power source, drawing power directly from a computer when connected. Computer users badly needed a cheap, high-capacity, reliable, portable storage device. Flash memory became cheap and robust enough for consumer use by 1995.

Singapore 144
article thumbnail

Economics Drives Ray-Gun Resurgence

Cars That Think

General Atomics , a military contractor in San Diego, is also developing a laser of this power for the Army based on what’s known as the distributed-gain design , which has a single aperture. Put it down partly to the rising demand for cheap antimissile defense, but it’s mainly the result of technical advances in high-energy lasers.

San Diego 145