{"id":15376,"date":"2013-02-07T15:25:30","date_gmt":"2013-02-07T21:25:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress-367309-1145705.cloudwaysapps.com\/?p=15376"},"modified":"2013-02-07T15:25:30","modified_gmt":"2013-02-07T21:25:30","slug":"come-hang-with-sustainablog-to-discuss-new-technologies-promising-cheap-solar-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/articles\/come-hang-with-sustainablog-to-discuss-new-technologies-promising-cheap-solar-power\/","title":{"rendered":"Come Hang with sustainablog to Discuss New Technologies Promising Cheap Solar Power"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/solar-panels-sunset.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-15377\" title=\"solar panels sunset\" src=\"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/solar-panels-sunset.jpg\" alt=\"solar panels at sunset\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/solar-panels-sunset.jpg 500w, https:\/\/sustainablog.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/solar-panels-sunset-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>No doubt, solar power&#8217;s cleaner than coal or natural gas&#8230; but it simply can&#8217;t compete in terms of cost. Right? That&#8217;s been the conventional wisdom, but two companies &#8211; V3Solar and First Solar &#8211; are claiming costs well below average electricity rates with two different technologies. Cleantechnica&#8217;s taken a look at both (<a href=\"http:\/\/cleantechnica.com\/2013\/01\/24\/v3solar-spin-cell-cones-cheap-solar\/\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/cleantechnica.com\/2013\/02\/03\/thin-film-solar-power-to-be-sold-for-less-than-coal\/\">here<\/a>), and, tomorrow, CT&#8217;s editor Zachary Shahan will join us at Hangin&#8217; with sustainablog to discuss these developments, and the veracity of the cost claims.<\/p>\n<p>Want to join the discussion? We&#8217;re on air tomorrow at 10am central <a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/b\/109268936901297199229\/109268936901297199229\/posts\">over at Google+<\/a>, and we&#8217;d love to have you participate.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Image credit:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/pink_dispatcher\/483756270\/\">Pink Dispatcher<\/a> via <a href=\"http:\/\/photopin.com\">photopin<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/2.0\/\">cc<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two companies claiming costs for electricity cheaper than coal. Can&#8217;t be right&#8230; can it? We&#8217;ll discuss it this week at Hangin&#8217; with sustainablog.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":15377,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[3672,4278,272,6178,6059,6,6282],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Hangin&#039; with sustainablog #9: Solar Cheaper than Coal?<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Two companies are claiming they can produce electricity from solar power cheaper than coal. 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