How has China’s manufacturing ability changed the solar industry?
It has been an enormous contributor to the reduction of the price of equipment. China is also not only bringing large manufacturing capacity on board but is rapidly building its own R&D expertise which should also drive innovation. But the expansion could not be so enormous without huge governmental subsidies. China is the largest producer, user and governmental supporter by subsidies of the worldwide PV Production. How has technology changed? What do you think about the product that can be painted on roofs for solar…will we have a mass market for this? There is of course a potential large market for all of these promising new technologies but they will all need a lead time for mass market adoption. What we need is time not only to roll out these technologies but also to see how they behave as the systems age. GreenVesting uses silicone technology in most of its equipment, this is technology has been around since the USA and the USSR launched satellites to spy on one another and as suc