Plastic solar power & more
on Mar 11 in Lowes DIY
Printable plastic solar cells will bring solar power to the mainstream at $0.10 per watt. Light weight, flexiblity and high efficiency are the traits of this new breed of solar power. Meanwhile old school large scale solar powered generators continue to work in other part of the world.
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cplai when it coming into market whats the news anything new….
2010 is comming soon, I want my house to be self powered and off the grid. I live in AZ, so it would be very beneficial.
Actually it is wonderful and efficient! The city of Sevilie in Spain runs entirely on electric solar power. The reson for everyone not using solar power in the U.S was because of the Bush administration. Bush was big on oil and gas and didn’t favor alternative fuel. As a result, solar power was not granted its potential. Although its available now, people don’t understand its effectivness and benefits it provides.
Why arent we using solar power for everything? Huge upfront cost. Upwards of $25,000 for me, a single guy in an apartment, to install enough solar panels to completely power all my energy needs. Also, without improvements in energy storage, current batteries are also expensive and bulky to store the energy needed to run at night. Plug into the normal electric system and during the day you offset what you use, and possible put more in than you use, making the electric company pay you.
So because it hasn’t been done yet we should stop trying to do it? Your reasoning eludes me. Game changing technology always runs counter to what is assumed is possible.
Don’t forget almost all power eventually trace back to solar power. Even your fossil fuel used to be some pre-historic plant life that absorb energy from the Sun. Even hydro power was from water cycle powered by the Sun. Basically increasing the yield from the Sun is our future. There are only few non-solar power, e.g. nuclear power (from scienc), tidal wave (from the orbiting moon’s gravity) and geothermal (from the magma underground).
Everyone knows that “solar power” does not produce enough power to sufficiently fuel even a meagar lifestyle. If it was so wonderful and efficient, everyone would use it. But what we use is what works such as Electric, Oil, Gas, nuclear, and Hydro. Why can’t “these people” get this through their heads.
FUCKING JEW!
when you factor in all the costs, environment included is this direction we should be going to achieve grid parity or try and use silicon which is in abundance?
I don’t see that as a problem because the plastic produces a lot more energy during its life span. Unlike a water bottle, you don’t get anything back except for taking up space in the land fill. You cannot expect to get something from nothing. So the production of such “plastic” is very worthwhile.
don’t we need oil for plastics? and the reaction uses a shit pot of energy to make the palstic granules
I bet solar steam generator injures a lot of birds.
kinda hrsh on the spanish guy by giving him sub titles…= =” his english is alright actually…
im doin a project on polymer photovoltaics, good stuff =)