Solar technology embedded in our sidewalks, driveways, siding, paint, rooftops, and windows, and just in the next five years! Solar energy will be an affordable option for you and your neighbors. Until now, the materials and the process of producing solar cells to convert into solar energy have been too costly for widespread adoption.
But now this is changing with the creation of flexible “thin-film” solar cells, a new type of cost-efficient solar cell that can be 100 times thinner than silicon-wafer cells and produced at a lower cost. These new thin-film solar cells can be “printed” and arranged on a flexible backing, suitable for not only the tops, but also the sides of buildings, tinted windows, cell phones, notebook computers, cars, and even clothing.
That is part of IBM’s 5-point technology revolution in the coming half-decade based on some technologies emerging from its labs. The Web will talk back to you, and you will not forget things!! Click on link above to know details but coming to solar tech, some basic doubts.
We have been hearing of efficiencies of PVs improving even as new thin film materials make it possible to blend into any kind of material, from buildings to clothes, as IBM sees it.
Can someone tell us what kind of research is happening in India, on renewable technologies?
But now this is changing with the creation of flexible “thin-film” solar cells, a new type of cost-efficient solar cell that can be 100 times thinner than silicon-wafer cells and produced at a lower cost. These new thin-film solar cells can be “printed” and arranged on a flexible backing, suitable for not only the tops, but also the sides of buildings, tinted windows, cell phones, notebook computers, cars, and even clothing.
That is part of IBM’s 5-point technology revolution in the coming half-decade based on some technologies emerging from its labs. The Web will talk back to you, and you will not forget things!! Click on link above to know details but coming to solar tech, some basic doubts.
We have been hearing of efficiencies of PVs improving even as new thin film materials make it possible to blend into any kind of material, from buildings to clothes, as IBM sees it.
Can someone tell us what kind of research is happening in India, on renewable technologies?
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Hi JL,
Just the other day I was reading in one of the tabloids that Karnataka’s Energy Secretary is planning to encourage citizens to put solar panels (similar to what is used today for heating water) to generate electricity. Wonder how many panels will be required, how much power will that generate and the cost. But it certainly is a good idea to implement in today’s energy crisis scenario.
Jagadish
Jagdish, this idea of microgeneration is picking up in Europe and the US where people put up solar panels and small wind turbines on rooftops to generate their own power. A good idea once we get better with the storage options. At present the batteries are large and heavy and use up a lot of space.
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