an exciting article over on sciencedaily covering a breakthrough in solar technology. researchers at the new jersey institute of technology (NJIT) have found a way to make inexpensive flexible solar panels that can be printed out or painted onto a surface, making them very easy to produce. awesome! lead researcher Dr. Somenath Mitra states “Someday homeowners will even be able to print sheets of these solar cells with inexpensive home-based inkjet printers. Consumers can then slap the finished product on a wall, roof or billboard to create their own power stations.” the new solar cell technology uses cylindrically shaped carbon nanotube complexes combined with tiny carbon Buckyballs (known as fullerenes) to harvest the sun’s energy. read more about the science behind the new solar panels at sciencedaily or at the NJIT website.
Hi,
I read an article about this back in 2002? Why have we not seen it yet? Is it being controlled by oil companies or what?
http://www.3nw.com/energy/resources/plastic_solar_panels.htm
It seem to be almost too good to be true
you’re right mark. that sounds like basically the same solar technology that the NJIT group is also developing. maybe the NJIT work is an advancement from the work done y the team at Berkeley. i don’t know.
i don’t think that the project is being controlled by the oil companies. but i am sure oil companies lobby to fight the funding and advancement of such technologies. it is a shame our country is so far behind on solar and wind power development. take for example Muhlhausen, Germany back in 2004.