Home› Precious Metals

Silver and Solar

OperationButterOperationButter Posts: 1,672 ✭✭✭
in Precious Metals
These guys have some great information. I had no clue that this is how much the solar industry uses silver, its amazing

Linky
Gold is for savings. Fiat is for transactions.



BST Transactions (as the seller): Collectall, GRANDAM, epcjimi1, wondercoin, jmski52, wheathoarder, jay1187, jdsueu, grote15, airplanenut, bigole

Comments

  • rickoricko Posts: 98,724 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Very interesting.... silver seems to have a golden future...image Cheers, RickO
  • Timbuk3Timbuk3 Posts: 11,658 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I guess its time to stock
    pile more silver !!!
    Timbuk3
  • tneigtneig Posts: 1,505 ✭✭✭
    Good article:

    I agree, solar is growing! But is Silvers tie with gold, while good now, holding it back or helping it?

    Can ya buy some of this cadmium telluride?: From the article...
    "At the moment there are two main solar panel technologies on the market. The traditional one is "thick film," where silver is the main component. The other one is a less-expensive "thin-film" method which replaces silver with another material, cadmium telluride." (they mention it but downplay it a bit)

    I wonder as gold goes up in price, how long silver can track or parallel it since it has its own uses.... Could silver break out, but then NOT keep going up in parallel with gold, because its industrial demand has not grown as fast as the rise in gold? Yikes. I mean in a tough economical times, with less usage $silver could stay steady or even go down. But in that same tough time where the dollar goes south, gold keeps going up!
    Do we want silver to break out on its own value, or do we want it to stay tied to gold?

    The Juxtaposition between silver and gold is really blowing my mind.

    ---
    I'm still counting on silver for the hike up and its own special possibilities, but realize it needs to be balanced with gold.

    thanks for posting the link.
    COA
  • OperationButterOperationButter Posts: 1,672 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Can ya buy some of this cadmium telluride?: >>



    Just a quick thought. You might not want to buy/try to buy the cadmium. Maybe a company that manufactures cadmium or the company that puts together the less expensive film that will be used. Dno just thoughts.
    Gold is for savings. Fiat is for transactions.



    BST Transactions (as the seller): Collectall, GRANDAM, epcjimi1, wondercoin, jmski52, wheathoarder, jay1187, jdsueu, grote15, airplanenut, bigole
  • roadrunnerroadrunner Posts: 28,303 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Silver is only loosely tied to gold considering that just in the past 14 yrs the ratio has ranged from 100-1 to 31-1. And over the past 45 yrs the range has been 100-1 to 17-1.

    While silver is linked to some large industrial uses, gold is linked to the world's massive debts that at least for the past 50 yrs have done nothing but increase.
    There was no great industrial demand increase in January 1980 and April 2011 that sent silver to $50 over 10 year periods. I suspect wherever silver peaks on this next go around,
    it will have much less to do with solar or any other industrial use vs. investment demand.
    Barbarous Relic No More, LSCC -GoldSeek--shadow stats--SafeHaven--321gold
  • OldEastsideOldEastside Posts: 4,602 ✭✭✭✭✭
    We gotta get on the ball on this with a WW2 effort, wind and solar are our future.
    I read somewhere that The TVA project used solid silver windings in the genorators
    to enrich the plutonium and uranium so we could win the war, silver had the extra
    oomph that was needed, Silver is the future in our tech world.

    Steve
    Promote the Hobby
  • cladkingcladking Posts: 28,636 ✭✭✭✭✭


    << <i>We gotta get on the ball on this with a WW2 effort, wind and solar are our future.
    I read somewhere that The TVA project used solid silver windings in the genorators
    to enrich the plutonium and uranium so we could win the war, silver had the extra
    oomph that was needed, Silver is the future in our tech world.

    >>



    I don't know if solar power is the right way to go but I do know that so long as there is technological progress and population increase that silver demand will increase exponentially.
    Tempus fugit.
  • VikingDudeVikingDude Posts: 1,342 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Very interesting.... silver seems to have a golden future...image >>



    Agreed.
  • tlake22tlake22 Posts: 299 ✭✭
    Just added to my silver stack. Just had solar panels installed on my house. If you have intent on staying in your home for 20 plus years, it is an effective investment.
  • MJPHELANMJPHELAN Posts: 780 ✭✭✭
    I have an 11.5 KW system on my home. Hope thieves don't hear about the silver in the panels. I worry enough about the copper in my air conditioner.

    Mark
    Mark
  • tlake22tlake22 Posts: 299 ✭✭
    that's a big system. Mine's a 9.8
  • JCMhoustonJCMhouston Posts: 5,306 ✭✭✭
    Natural gas is the way to go. We have so much of it that Dubai and Exxon have just put together a JV company to produce and export LNG from Louisiana to the rest of the world.
    JCM-Houston
    World Collection
    British Collection
    German States Collection
  • Tiggs2012Tiggs2012 Posts: 167 ✭✭✭
    9.8 and 11.5kw? Geez, and here just got my 6 kW system up and running and its more power than we need. Hope you both went with micro inverters too. I made 30 KWh yesterday, how much did both of your guys bigger systems make?
  • tlake22tlake22 Posts: 299 ✭✭
    we have a family of 8,we use alot.
  • tlake22tlake22 Posts: 299 ✭✭
Sign In or Register to comment.