New way of making solar panels

[bevanwillson]

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[code1211]

Just very very cool, very interesting. Thanks so much for posting about that.

The problem with solar is the whole installation thing. The batteries and the conversion to household AC. The panels aren't such a much for cost, but anything that reduces the cost is a wonderful. Especially if it is flexible and easy to mount.

This will also be a huge gain in rural areas.


The next big thing will have to be in energy storage. But this is a real cool next step.


As for the wind farms. They are incredibly noisy and ugly. And the power generated is not really enough to justify them. All the folks who love them live in big cities and don't have to look at them. Or listen to them. I can see why local politicians have huge NIMBY problems with them. Local politicians are supposed to listen to their constituents and save them from monstrosities like that. Of course, the poor power company gets it from both sides. They get mandated wind requirements, and the same politicians who insist they do wind farms won't let them build them anywhere near them.

But this so cool, I wish I could pos rep Chris twice for it.

At some point in the not too distant future, re-roofing a house will carry a cost that is roughly equal between shingles that keep out the rain and shingles that keep out the rain AND generate the electric for the appliances in the house.

When that happens, we will see the field of our solar power dreams occur on the roofs of our houses.

How many million acres of photo voltaic collection possibility exists on the roofs of our homes?

 

[Douger]

Your masters have already geared up to transform the battery movie. Lithium.
Of course they told you they were only there to take FreeDumb and DemoNcrasy to the Afghan people.
US discovers natural desposits of gold, iron, copper and lithium in Afghanistan | Mail Online

 

[naomibee]

Once these technologies are perfected, every roof in America should be made of solar panels instead of roofing tiles.

It will happen one day.

I hope so to.

 

[Big Fitz]

I forget, have we answered the problem of making any green technology without oil being the backbone of it's construction?

Since petrochemicals, specifically natural gas is the main ingredient in most modern chemicals and almost all plastics, let alone the power source in which these parts and products are manufactured... how does this hurdle get beaten?

 

[Old Rocks]

You really don't get it, do you, Fritzy. The objection is to burning fossil fuels. Not their use as industrial chemicals.

 

[westwall]

A new way of making solar cells promises a cheaper way to generate electricity from the sun and new ways to integrate solar power into other products.

Solar cells, or photovoltaics, are widely made using wafers of silicon that are stiff and brittle. California Institute of Technology physics professor Harry Atwater is making photovoltaics differently.

"Our technology uses 50-100 times less silicon," he said, "in the form of a sparse array of wires. And that sparse array of wires has exactly the same light absorption and electricity-collection properties as the conventional silicon wafer cell."

The tiny silicon wires stick up from the base, or substrate, looking something like a microscopic hair brush. And because the key component of solar cells is an expensive, highly purified form of silicon, there's a real economic benefit to this design.

"So what that means is, in terms of cost, is you can use 100 times less silicon. And that's potentially very significant."

But the silicon is what converts light into electricity, so you might think using so much less silicon would reduce the electrical output, but Atwater says that's not the case.

"The light comes in and is both directly absorbed by the wires, and some of the light bounces around in between the wires. And that bouncing around or multiple scattering in between the wires results in dramatically enhanced absorption," Atwater explained. "In fact, the absorption enhancement that we see is in the range of 20 to 50 times the single-pass absorbance."

New Way of Making Solar Cells Promises Cheaper Power | Science and Technology | English

Another example of how science is going to advance making the whole stop CO2 now charade just another footnote in history.

By 2100, petroleum as fuel will be as pervasive as Whale Oil as fuel is today.

That is certainly the hope. Petroleum has so many better uses as plastics that it's sad to see it burned up as fuel.

 

[bevanwillson]

The solar panels are what catches the sunlight. Each panel holds a large number of solar cells, also called photovoltaic cells. These are housed in the solar panels, converting sunlight into electricity.