[ RadSafe ] solar advances

[ROY HERREN]

I suppose that it all depends on one's own vested interests as to how they feel about this issue, but the news about increasing the efficiency of inexpensive solar cells would seem to be really good news.  The current generation of Silicon solar cells are at near cost parity with major forms of generating electricty, so one could potentially surmise from this recent press that if this new technology makes it to market that the costs of solar photovoltaics will be less than other sources of electricity.  This has the potential to significantly shift the balance in the entire energy market.  Unfortunately,  without decreases in the cost of nuclear power generation, or significient governmental regulatory pressure on fossil fuel carbon emissions, this does not bode well for the nuclear industry.  The Nuclear industry could very well follow the coal industry into oblivion,  which in my humble opinion is ironic because I suspect that the coal industry and
 their lobbyists have conspired over the years to kill the Nuclear Industry.