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Cheap, Solar-Power-Everywhere Nanosolar PowerSheets Go On Sale, Really Are Cheap

Unlike a lot of other energy-crisis solving tech that bursts into vapor at the last minute, the award-winning and groundbreaking Nanosolar PowerSheets are actually on sale today. They're super cheap, ultra-adaptable solar panels that can be printed on the side of pretty much anything, promising solar power anywhere you want it. At today's launch, they still slide under coal's $2.1-a-watt energy cost, though they're not mass produced at the scale needed to bring it to the 30-cents-a-watt level they're aiming for yet. But if they prove themselves on the field, the clamoring demand would quickly materialize for that kind of output. [NYT]

8:00 AM on Tue Dec 18 2007
By matt buchanan
13,451 views, 46 comments

Latest by n/a: From data released by Nanosolar, the flagship consumer model SolarPly is about 12% efficient. That's significantly less than traditional silicon based material but it's made up for by it's area effectiveness. For example, a 2ft x 2ft square of SolarPly more »

al gore is ecstatic

Nanosolar PowerSheets Promise Cheap Solar Power Everywhere, Unlimited Gadget Energy

Winning the Green Tech Grand Award and "Innovation of the Year" nods from Pop Sci, Nanosolar PowerSheets pack a whole lot of potential into their Paris Hilton-cheap, Nicole Richie-thin panels—we're talking solar power for 30 cents a watt, compared to the $3 it costs now, without silicon or laying the panels on glass. "You're talking about printing rolls of the stuff—printing it on the roofs of 18-wheeler trailers, printing it on garages, printing it wherever you want it." If you wanna know more about the black magic coating the panels, check out Pop Sci's spectacularly detailed coverage. [Pop Sci via BBG]

7:00 PM on Thu Nov 15 2007
By matt buchanan
17,629 views, 25 comments

Latest by n/a: Actually I have seen a thin about this about a year ago on the science channel and a scientist already did all this research on it and found all these different "dyes" ,as they described them, to soak up different more »