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Date: Mon, 30-Apr-84 14:16:00 EDT
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uokvax!emjej    Apr 30 13:16:00 1984

More on solar energy: one Charles Gay of Arco Solar (subsidiary of Arco Oil)
spoke last week here at the University of Oklahoma. To quote a local paper's
article about his talk,

	Gay said he expects that by the end of the decade,
	[photovoltaic] modules will be up to 20% efficient
	compared to today's 11% efficiencies.

So, if you did the exercise of figuring out the area that must be covered
by something to receive solar energy that would generate as much electricity
as the generator that powers the terminal you're reading this by (sorry
about the grammatical error in that posting) and you were thinking of
using photovoltaics, then you should multiply the answer you got by 9
(today) or by 5 (in 1990).

					James Jones