Moldable Solar Cells
In the new technology frontiers, a company in California is claiming a new pour-able solar cell. They're called Innovalight, and while their website is very light on the details, they claim to have just secured $28 million for development, so someone's buying into their research.
Basically, the actual solar cell is made up of a "silicon nanocrystalline ink" in a solvent which can be poured into any shape or form required, dried of the solvent, and used just as any conventional solar panel.
Even beyond that, they're projecting costs of 50% less than conventional solar panels, and efficiencies approaching, or surpassing, current thin film technology.
There doesn't seem to be much more than that out there at this point, but if it works out as well as reported, the
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2 Comments:
It would be nice to see solar get off the ground so to speak.
Even the Pentagon wants to exploit it because even they believe about Peak Oil!
There's only one reason I can see that we aren't far more toward solar energy than we are now, and that's Big Business. They can't meter the sun...at least yet...
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