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Photovoltaics in transport
Particularly enjoyed the photos included with this article, but think it could do with some work. Including these tags at the start of the article would probably be a good idea... -- Johnfos 09:56, 10 June 2007 (UTC)

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 * Thanks for your note. Have done some tidying up of this article, but more could be done.  I think this blog-like reference is not really suitable for WP and needs to be replaced with something better. -- Johnfos 05:08, 11 June 2007 (UTC)

Solar power in the UK
I'd also suggest adding these tags to this article, as they alert other editors who can then help to improve the article. I don't know much about the UK situation but wonder why the Renewables Obligation certificates have apparently not helped PV. -- Johnfos 11:57, 10 June 2007 (UTC)


 * Thanks for your note. Have tidied up this article a bit now, and think it looks better. See what you think... -- Johnfos 04:41, 11 June 2007 (UTC)

Photovoltaic power stations
Contributions welcome! -- Johnfos 08:47, 11 June 2007 (UTC)

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 * Picked up this mine of information http://www.epia.org/documents/PV_Status_Report_2006.pdf at the EU PV platform meeting last week. The EU offers free right to reproduce with acknowledgement.--Oldboltonian 00:23, 17 June 2007 (UTC)

Thanks for the tip. It does look good, but I have to admit to moving on from PV a bit lately. There seems to be so many Wikipedians who are contributing on the topic of PV right now. So I'm researching Biofuels, and, as you may know, there are some very promising developments with cellulosic ethanol. Do have any other interests with renewables, apart from PV? regards, Johnfos 09:56, 19 June 2007 (UTC)

A comment
I have not followed your writing on the PV page but I've followed your comments on the Talk portion of the page. Your writing has gravitas and your reasoning is a beacon. You have my compliments. I'm a student of energy and PV specifically as well as a heavy investor in PV but I've stayed away from the page aside from dumping the Advantages/Disadvantages and a few comments.

I have been working on the Solar Power page. The page still needs attention but it's coming up to speed. I have to work on my narrative but as I've built up the page it's become more clear where it should go. One area I've barely touched is the PV section. It is currently in poor shape. I don't know if you'd be interested in writing a summary of PV in the context of Solar energy but I think you would do a wonderful job.

Additionally, I have formally requested the name of the page be changed to Solar energy because I believe this is a better name for several reasons. I would appreciate a comment on the Solar Power page in regards to this. I realize you may not have an opinion one way or the other. I've carried this question to some big fish including a former Chairman of ASES and John Perlin. Answers vary. I would like to hear your answer. Mrshaba 10:39, 1 October 2007 (UTC)

Hello again... I asked you to develop a synopsis of PV on the solar energy page a few weeks ago. I've held off on editing the PV section of the solar energy page for a while but have recently been reworking the material. I'm trying to maintain an international and historical perspective with my edits. One piece I've tried but failed to include is the German reaction to the oil crises in regards to PV development. i.e. I've included Japanese, US and UN energy planning reactions to the oil crises but have not been able to incorporate any German info. I figure there was a response within German energy policies as a result of the oil crises but I can't find any noteworthy examples. My plan with the remainder of the PV synopsis is to segue way the policies of Japan in the mid 90s into the policies of Germany which have roughly led to the current state of PV development. I'm specifically looking for some data on early German PV development which would point to the current state of affairs in German PV policy. Germany has long been a major industrial player so something should be mentioned about where German PV policies have come from. Do you know of any 1970s/1980s German policies which promoted PV? Mrshaba 16:05, 1 November 2007 (UTC)\

Found part of what I needed on the German reaction to the oil crises. If you know of any, I'm still looking for some German incentive programs that were used in the 1970s and 1980s. I put some suggestions on the PV and PV timeline pages regarding historic PV production and price graphs. Many pages on WP would be enhanced if historic PV price and production graphs were developed. What do you think of this idea? Mrshaba 09:45, 5 November 2007 (UTC)

Welcome back!
Nice to see you editing again... have fun! Johnfos (talk) 03:05, 10 February 2008 (UTC)

Resource for your CPV page
Hi Oldboltonian,

I was looking at your CPV page and saw that you're looking for expert input.

I gave a paper at a conference last year in Spain on sort of a survey of CPV systems. If you like, I can email you a copy for you to incorporate into your page as you see fit.

Regards, Brad Hines Brad.Hines at soliant-energy dotcom —Preceding unsigned comment added by Behines (talk • contribs) 22:21, 21 February 2008 (UTC)

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Feed-in Tariff Spreadsheet
This is by far the best table I've found showing the feed-in tariff values year by year, country by country and technology by technology. This info should be helpful on the PV incentive page or elsewhere. There's a link at the bottom of the page to the Excel or Quattro spreadsheet.  Mrshaba (talk) 18:57, 19 March 2008 (UTC)

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If WP still considers that laying out his education and his one lifetime job, along with the three items for which he is remembered in approximate chronological order is a copyright infringement, in spite of the fact that added details not present in the cited text Boydell's life story is supposed to infringe, I don't know what else to say.

His birth date is the date he was born on He went to school at Manchester school of Art He served in the Royal Navy The type face he created was called Festival His famous posters were called Squander Bug and Black Widow He died when he died

Any advice on how dates, Manchester School of Art, Royal Navy, Festival, Squander Bug and Black Widow may be paraphrased are welcome. Also other ways to order a biography other than chronological... (should I write in reverse chronology?Oldboltonian (talk) 14:47, 12 November 2011 (UTC)

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 * Cool! I will do that.  The existing article seemed quite wordy, unstructured poorly referenced and in places outdated.  I do need to add a section about the companies active in the field. If there's something to add in addition, please let me know.  Meanwhile I will continue to restructure, update and reference.  probably a couple more weeks on and off.
 * Since 3 weeks the value of resource independence has become more clear in Western Europe. Does your plastic recycle page reflect imports and exports of RMs? Oldboltonian (talk) 10:46, 17 March 2022 (UTC)
 * RMs = raw materials? It mentions the global waste trade but only briefly. It focusses more on technical processes of recycling: how is it sorted and why, pros and cons of mechanical and feedstock recycling etc. It's supposed to be a top-level article to I opted for a broad overview.
 * Pages like these tend to melt if no one keeps an eye on them. They're sufficiently interesting to get a lot of good faith edits from the public, but sufficiently technical to make those edits difficult to place. After a while the structure of the article starts to degrade. --Project Osprey (talk) 12:07, 17 March 2022 (UTC)
 * Yes, that's exactly what happened with photovoltaics. Oldboltonian (talk) 22:05, 17 March 2022 (UTC)

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