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Astrowatt has developed a new manufacturing technique for solar cells that would enable them to attain the comparably high efficiency of traditional silicon wafer solar panels, but while using the silicon raw material much more efficiently.
Startup Invents Peel-Off Solar Cell
Seeded on Sat Jan 28, 2012 8:19 PM EST
Article Source: CleanTechnica - By Nicholas Brown- Enjoy this article? Help vote it up the 'Vine.
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You’ve probably heard of thin-film solar cells by now. They are, literally, semiconductor ink that is printed using an inkjet printer on a substrate (surface) such as glass or plastic, and possibly encased in a protective solar panel.
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#1 - Sat Jan 28, 2012 8:20 PM ESTIt's a matter of time before real progress starts being made on these projects. Then, watch the R's start to come unglued. Progress - it isn't something they are known for.
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#3 - Sat Jan 28, 2012 10:18 PM ESTShelby,
This is about green energy, I read the entire link, & nowhere did politics get a mention.
Have I missed something?
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If/when real progress is made on this technology (and it will; just a matter of time), then there is money to be made. Where there's money to be made, you won't see republicans "coming unglued," you'll see them investing.
#4 - Sun Jan 29, 2012 6:16 AM ESTIf 3 cells per mm results in a cost of about $1.50/W, increasing the output to 5 cells per mm should bring the price down to about $0.90/W. And the remnants are easier and cheaper to recycle in the process, lowering the cost more.
The advent of the plug-n-play technology is lowering installation costs with grid tie-in. Work being done on electrolysis of water is poised to lower these costs to a point where it is affordable on the smallest of systems. And improvements in PEMFC and SOFC are making fuel cells with co-generation of heat applicable to residential installations. They are already being used on the commercial building scale.
The next step in plug-n-play is for the grid to be able to access this storage system to meet spikes in demand. I would like to see that limited to not taking any one storage system below 50% of capacity.
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