Spray-On Solar-Power Cells Are True Breakthrough
SOLAR REVOLUTION - Solar Paint Ted Sargent is a pioneer in solar science. He’s working on solar technology that could literally be woven into every aspect of daily life, from our clothes to our roads, using what is known as a spray-on solar cell. The implications for our energy systems are profound. As Ted says, “Solar energy is not just an exciting science problem, but an incredibly important human problem.” Ted is working on solar nanotechnology with the potential to make solar energy very cheap and allow society to collect it on a huge scale. Currently, solar technology costs more to build and install than most people are willing to pay. Solar panels, for example, the technology most commonly associated with solar energy, are installed on your rooftop. The cost of collecting one kilowatt per hour of solar energy (about a third of the electricity an average household uses on any given day) is about $11000. Not only are panels expensive to install, they capture only the visible portion of the sun’s rays so they work only on sunny days. Ted’s focus is the infrared portion of the sun’s rays which accounts for more than half of all solar energy. What’s more, infrared energy is available to us even in cloudy weather. A quantum dot is a semiconductor nanostructure that confines the motion of conduction band electrons, valence band holes, or excitons (bound pairs of conduction band electrons and valence band holes) in all three spatial directions. The confinement can be due to …
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it would be great if this could be done….
This just spawns the usual drivel about things that “could happen”, with pure fantasy in the numbers department, followed by the usual conspiracy theory that the oil companies own the patents. Case in point about 3Kwh daily usage. Uh-uh!. The bottom line is, the sheer volume of these divices which haven’t been made yet would have to be huge to give humans the equivalent of the present day system.
Solar is BS. I’m not saying that we shouldn’t use it but the power that reaches earth is very small. Also if you start capturing this energy then you are depriving organisms from solar energy. You can’t really do this. Nuclear power is the way. There is power problem - we’ve got nuclear so people shouldn’t be freaking out.
I wonder why plants never stumbled onto this technology. It would seem like those that did would have a significant advantage if there’s five times more power to be had in the infrared portion of the spectrum. I’m dubious of the claim.
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@Zbawka - This is all true. I think, that this production is not in full swing. There is another one called KONARKA from Boston, MA area. One thing is that foil painted ink requires much more area to cover in order to produce reasonable amount of KW for utility application. The SILICON based crystalline modules are only suitable for residential or commercial use, at this time.
@CalyptratusTZM I agree I had to turn off the audio.
All good text and talk, but WHY oh WHY did it have to be played at once? Ho can honestly say they can read one thing and listen to something else, and remember ANYTHING of it?
-c’mon dude…
I’ve seen some stuff on Nanosolar aswell, do not know why its not available yet. The exciting thing about them is that they will have to capability to serve mass amount of people for a low cost. They print that material like newspaper. What if they could deliver it the same way? ; )
@jakigi: Really? Then tell us some of the patent numbers, please. Oh, don’t forget to remove your tin foil hat first…
So it’s still just bla,bla,bla…when normal human being is able to buy one of these $0.50 per watt,then you can talk revolution and change from coal and oil..I bet that it is possible to give these panels out for that price,just government doesn’t want it..good luck with all that beautiful nano technology never ever be seen on the market!!
The Marsians bought the patent (together with the ones for nuclear fusion).
yay for tyranny - I mean corporations. A decent film would be good enough - its just all bs-y right now.
One person’s opinion, and I kind of like it myself since it’s so optimistic, is that due to the worldwide recession, the big companies will have trouble buying off the little guy, therefore the little guy will finally be able to flourish instead of giving in to payoffs to feed his family and etc.
That will finally get some of these inventions out to the public so it can see some real progress.
I built my own Solar Panels for under $100 and a Solar Water Heater for UNDER $10 that are currently powering my 1700 Square Foot home! I used the simple plans at:
ambigrid-review.blogspot(DOT)com
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The patents are owned by companies banking on fossil fuels.
Infrared Panels is the future
I have seen the other video showing company named ‘Nanosolar’ running a production thin foil covered with very revolutionary photovoltaic material. This suppose to be third generation of photovoltaic, very sensitive absorbing broad rage of light spectrum photocells. The beauty of this photocells is the falling cost to produce that the 1W of electrical power going down right through $1 level. Suppose to be easy to make, but is nowhere to be seen on the market.
So where is the credibility? How do I know this is actually not some non-professional hiding behind a black screen?
best price I see for solar energy is 1.15/kw
fact is solar power costs 4 times more .
there is no benefit .
You want people to read & listen at the same time…Bad Idea.
I built my own solar panels which are currently providing energy for over half my home using the plans I downloaded at:
ambigrid-review.blogspot(DOT)com
That’s the problem, they “invent” an idea then fish for funding to make a prototype which never appears. Meanwhile, you haven’t really invented anything until you can show a working model.