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What the hell triggered that? Wild! Not that I'm complaining.
As is normal, regardless of the crystal ball chartest, this stock goes where it wants, not where it's predicted to go! Welcome to the Sltd World!
Yep! Nevada means growth. National next.
There are reasons this holds strong. However there are some who would will disagree. This stock is not a speculation stock.
EVEN MORE ABSOLUTELY CORRECT!!! YOU JUST NAILED THE BIG JEOPARDY QUESTION.
WHERE IS SOLAR3D GOING? JIM ANSWERED THAT QUESTION. WERE YOU LISTENING???
ABSOLUTELY CORRECT,
ABSOLUTELY CORRECT!
That is true but I believe if you are gifted those stocks it is considered income therfore taxable at the rate at time of recieving them.
I hope your stocks are in a IRA or such. Otherwise you are required to file quarterly reports on capital gains and or losses. GL
Jim told me recently that these boards are only good for speculation. Which is why he doesn't waste time reading them. Today is proving once again that he is a very bright person. I take nothing on blind faith! I also don't waste my time making up weird stories about why the stock is doing what it is doing.
I have been on other stock that there was absolutly no question as why it is performing the way it is, good or bad.
Perhaps someone would like to speculate as to whether or not the ORION test was a total sucess or maybe even a total failure? No? Why not? You say because your not a rocket scientist? What's that? You don't have any inside information to go on? My, my. Imagine that?
Hey! JN and company. Please please, sell sell selll. I want this stock to tank so I can get greedy and buy up a bunch more. Please you have got to make people worried sick about your honesty and start selling off. Let's drive that ole PPS down to .09 again. Oh dear that may wipe out some who bought in higher, but oh well, you and the guys are just in this to milk the market. Right. Oh yes! Please start making announcements prior to all the ducks being in a row. That shoul help lower the price also. Ya have a good day now! Ya hear?
How can a stock have the massive percentage incres on the PPS and still have people companing it should have been more but the dumb insiders are deluting the stock? Hopefully people will learn a new song ans dance routine this year. The old one is quite tiresome.
With a few exceptions those pridictions were predicated on certain events happening before the end of the year.
1. Patent approval
2. Manufacturing partner announced.
Had these happened we would in all likelyhood have been above a dollar.
Amazing how we are quick to blame but refuse to remember.
Do you happen to have proof of insider selling at END of year? I can find no fillings that show that insider selling.
You are not wrong it is the accelerated program. It has to be maintained for five days before uplisting can occur.
Plus most companies are smart enough to build in lag time, ya know just in case there is some bad weather. Only smart thing to do, that way you still come in on time. Freedom.
One thing you have overlooked. There are a tremendous number of independents, mostly middle of the road former republicans and democrats, and the number is growing. We are for the most part simi conservative, and we don't like to be told by goverment how to spend our money. Solar and energy independance is a rather big deal to us. Most former republicans left the party because the party left us. They no longer listen and have an agenda that we don't agree with. Anti-solar is one of them. Independents are becoming the third party, and are having more and more of an inpact on electing people that are environmentally friendly.
The Panasonic cell wasn't practical to produce. Production costs would have made it to expensive to sell.
However I have contended all along that that patent would have no influence on our cell. Why. Simply because we know about it, we have a top grage patent lawyer, and if any part of that patent was used in the developement of this cell Panasonic would already be rolled into the royalties or signed a quit interest or whatever that release is called. I simply don't see that as an issue now or in the future. IMO
Amongst dozens of reason he should sell some stock, the most basic reason is 10 kids, a wife and all asociated cost that go with just living. We tend to forget these are people first.
Bah. Humbug!
Merry Christmas, and a very happy New Year! I have no doubt that future will be bright and merry for all the steadfast shareholders of SOLAR3D!
The Grinch has spoken!
Turn the auto correct off. It will then just alert you to possible misspelling.
Not to completely confuse things, but what the hey? It's way to quite.
World record solar cell with 44.7% efficiency
Date:
September 23, 2013
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Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems
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Researchers in Germany report a new world record for the conversion of sunlight into electricity using a new solar cell structure with four solar subcells. A new record efficiency of 44.7% was measured at a concentration of 297 suns, indicating that 44.7% of the solar spectrum's energy, from ultraviolet through to the infrared, is converted into electrical energy. The achievement is being hailed as a major step towards reducing the costs of solar electricity.
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World record solar cell with 44.7% efficiency, made up of four solar subcells based on III-V compound semiconductors for use in concentrator photovoltaics.
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The Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE, Soitec, CEA-Leti and the Helmholtz Center Berlin jointly announced today having achieved a new world record for the conversion of sunlight into electricity using a new solar cell structure with four solar subcells. Surpassing competition after only over three years of research, and entering the roadmap at world class level, a new record efficiency of 44.7% was measured at a concentration of 297 suns. This indicates that 44.7% of the solar spectrum's energy, from ultraviolet through to the infrared, is converted into electrical energy. This is a major step towards reducing further the costs of solar electricity and continues to pave the way to the 50% efficiency roadmap.
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Back in May 2013, the German-French team of Fraunhofer ISE, Soitec, CEA-Leti and the Helmholtz Center Berlin had already announced a solar cell with 43.6% efficiency. Building on this result, further intensive research work and optimization steps led to the present efficiency of 44.7%.
These solar cells are used in concentrator photovoltaics (CPV), a technology which achieves more than twice the efficiency of conventional PV power plants in sun-rich locations. The terrestrial use of so-called III-V multi-junction solar cells, which originally came from space technology, has prevailed to realize highest efficiencies for the conversion of sunlight to electricity. In this multi-junction solar cell, several cells made out of different III-V semiconductor materials are stacked on top of each other. The single subcells absorb different wavelength ranges of the solar spectrum.
"We are incredibly proud of our team which has been working now for three years on this four-junction solar cell," says Frank Dimroth, Department Head and Project Leader in charge of this development work at Fraunhofer ISE. "This four-junction solar cell contains our collected expertise in this area over many years. Besides improved materials and optimization of the structure, a new procedure called wafer bonding plays a central role. With this technology, we are able to connect two semiconductor crystals, which otherwise cannot be grown on top of each other with high crystal quality. In this way we can produce the optimal semiconductor combination to create the highest efficiency solar cells."
"This world record increasing our efficiency level by more than 1 point in less than 4 months demonstrates the extreme potential of our four-junction solar cell design which relies on Soitec bonding techniques and expertise," says André-Jacques Auberton-Hervé, Soitec's Chairman and CEO. "It confirms the acceleration of the roadmap towards higher efficiencies which represents a key contributor to competitiveness of our own CPV systems. We are very proud of this achievement, a demonstration of a very successful collaboration."
"This new record value reinforces the credibility of the direct semiconductor bonding approaches that is developed in the frame of our collaboration with Soitec and Fraunhofer ISE. We are very proud of this new result, confirming the broad path that exists in solar technologies for advanced III-V semiconductor processing," said Leti CEO Laurent Malier. Concentrator modules are produced by Soitec (started in 2005 under the name Concentrix Solar, a spin-off of Fraunhofer ISE). This particularly efficient technology is employed in solar power plants located in sun-rich regions with a high percentage of direct radiation. Presently Soitec has CPV installations in 18 different countries including Italy, France, South Africa and California.
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The above story is based on materials provided by Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems. Note: Materials may be edited for content and length.
So, we have had someone in the last 24 hours post " leak, news atb3am" We have had someone post " I know something you don't, party time coming". Well 3 am is past, no news. So far we have no proof of someone having a crystal ball. It will come when it comes!
You sound like me. Grew up on a farm in a quanset hut. Outhouse was a joy in the winter. No hot water. And probably the same type kerosene heater. Completely off grid not for me either.
We have already been down that road. Can't do IPO twice.
OMG!!!! Dropped in this morn as always to see what was going on. Then at first I thought I had hit the button for the Yahoo board. I check that one just to get my belly laughs in.
But no, it's actually the ihub board acting like the Yahoo board. Intellegence be damned, full speed ahead with unfounded speculation. This board has disintegrated into the abyss of none factual speculation. Intellegent discussion can no longer be used to describe this SLTD board.
Jim told me once that he doesn't pay that much attention to the market and share value. He feels that if he does his job correctly then the market will take care of itself. So, I don't think he is going to worry overmuch about the effect no announcement is going to have. If everything is not in alignment and for the companies best interest, and thereby ours, he isn't going to put out some PR that could in the long run do more damage than good. IMHO
First he bought at market value. Second, he runs the same risk as we. Announcement comes out and the market doesn't react. No increase in value.
I don't think the SEC cares about insiders BUYING. They care much more if you sell as an insider, right before BAD NEWS hits the streets. At that point even though you are protecting your investment, you are cheating because nobody in the public got the same advantage as you. Insider information.
Well you just never know do you? Cheers!
No, I don't think so. That was all for discussion. Jimwill do what is best for s.
Damn, and here I thought younwanted us to guess where you were going with tge secret tread. Was I wrong? Hahaha!
Ya know, thinking about this a bit more, well ya know getting uplisted sure would be great. So I guess if we had tomdo a R/s to achieve that it would be ok with me. I mean moving to a national board would really be neat. PPS WOULD TAKE OFF, NEGATIVE STIRRERS WOULD BE LEFT BEHIND! Yeah ok, I like it. We could actually get back to a discussion board. Let's go for it!
Perhaps you tied the original Gordian Knot. Yes?
Yes officer Krumke, yes. Oh dear I hear a rumble coming.
I don't think it will be needed. I firmley belive we will get there by aquisition. I am probably way off base to be pointing at Sunpower, howver I think in the end that will be the path of least resistance.
HKUP
Didn't happen my friend. Grit teeth and bare it. This to shall pass.
I have to disagree. The market does not look favorably on R/s's. It almost always asks what's wrong with that company? I have seen to many of them this year that totally failed in the supposed purpose of rising the value of the stock. Yes, at tge time of the r/s whatever value you have in the stock will remain the same, but to often the market then gets nervouse and the PPS slides downward whether justified or not. No a better action, I feel, if you think there are to many shares out there, do a buy back. Reducing the number of shares available will increase their price simply because they become harder to get. End of day same results without the dramatics of a R/s.
Ah, this is BS. I know of one company that did a r/s this year that isn't listed on this. They did it to get above the 1 penny threhhold, and promply sank back to sub penny. This is a flawed, as they say, study. Slanted to the authors desired outcome. You can make anything fit if you work at it hard enough.
Your reaching! This isn't Kentucky Fried Chicken secret receipt. You know where three or four companies make parts of the whole so nobody can ever know the total. Nope won't work. No grouping here to tye end product.