Spray-On Solar-Power Cells Are True Breakthrough

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SOLAR REVOLUTION – Solar Paint Ted Sargent is a pioneer in solar science. He’s working on solar technology that could literally be woven into every aspect of daily life, from our clothes to our roads, using what is known as a spray-on solar cell. The implications for our energy systems are profound. As Ted says, “Solar energy is not just an exciting science problem, but an incredibly important human problem.” Ted is working on solar nanotechnology with the potential to make solar energy very cheap and allow society to collect it on a huge scale. Currently, solar technology costs more to build and install than most people are willing to pay. Solar panels, for example, the technology most commonly associated with solar energy, are installed on your rooftop. The cost of collecting one kilowatt per hour of solar energy (about a third of the electricity an average household uses on any given day) is about $11000. Not only are panels expensive to install, they capture only the visible portion of the sun’s rays so they work only on sunny days. Ted’s focus is the infrared portion of the sun’s rays which accounts for more than half of all solar energy. What’s more, infrared energy is available to us even in cloudy weather. A quantum dot is a semiconductor nanostructure that confines the motion of conduction band electrons, valence band holes, or excitons (bound pairs of conduction band electrons and valence band holes) in all three spatial directions. The confinement can be due to

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August 26, 2010

henrykay01 @ 8:57 pm #

I invented a breakthrough source of energy, which contradicts the law of conservation of energy. I have a PROOF that there are electrodynamic phenomena which contradict the law of energy conservation. It will cost about $1200 to make a 6 kW generator in mass production. Value of the energy produced yearly about $5400. I am looking for $300 000 for a prototype and for $3M for patents.
H. Tomasz Grzybowski
tel. +48-512-933-540

gatheringwithin @ 9:11 pm #

@dzgfdg its not only about climate change, but also about all the chemical waste that goes in to water destroying many ecosystem and a source of fresh water and food that this ecosystem were providing for people and animal in the region, the other think is of cause air pollution so astmas and all other relatedf health issues and so on….. and additionally the main reason for clilamt change arises from very high activity of sun which right no is crazy, so it may all happend within ur life time

dzgfdg @ 9:50 pm #

@gatheringwithin truthfully i would like to see climate change in its final form, so all life would die out. too bad it aint goin to happen in my time. but hey, we got nuclear bombs to do it for us.

gatheringwithin @ 10:20 pm #

@kotapaka you shouldn tell peaple to get the degree to discuss this subject, while you discuss it yourself without knowing the basics.
I there is there is a future it is defenitly with word sustainable in it.
And nuclear is not sustainable. The uranium and plutonium deposits will finish in not a far future, and the nuclear waste is difficult think to handle while nuclear fusion is still out of our technological range, the answer is wind, tidal and wave turbines, geothermal and ultimately solar

gatheringwithin @ 11:11 pm #

@dzgfdg probably because oil companies are so big, rich and powerful that they do not need to care and they dont care about anything except they profit.
And if you think they make ur life simpler i would recomend you to reasearch a bit better, just because everything runs on oil it’s a causeing more problems then u think. They indeed have alots of cash but it doesnt mean they succesful in what they doing.

BoardOfRandomosity @ 11:19 pm #

Here’s my idea:
Make this the same color as spray on tan, then stupid spray-on-tan people will be able to benefit society by generating power.

dzgfdg @ 11:45 pm #

why are there lots of people bitching about big oil companies, they’re the ones who make ur lives simpler. only jealous because they’re successful

August 27, 2010

kestrel83 @ 12:27 am #

@kotapaka: We’re depriving other organisms of solar energy? We can’t even harvest more than 1% of the TOTAL energy of the Sun, what more deprive organisms of solar energy? If we could harvest 99.9% of the total energy that reaches Earth, we wouldn’t need oil and coal at all… only then would we be “depriving” other organisms solar energy. Please get a brain before you comment, kotapaka. Nuclear energy is clean, but with current technology, it is still highly dangerous. Utter stupidity.

kurisu7885 @ 12:32 am #

The ironic part is the prices this will be offered at will pout it out of reach of families who could REALLY use the savings on energy.

MrSmyusername @ 1:18 am #

Nuclear energy is safe and clean? Ok lets say a natural disaster strikes an area near a nuclear power plant leaving it in a failed state for days, the generators that run the back up cooling system for the plant run out of fuel… what then? Thats right disaster that spreads radiation for miles! Solar is renewable and causes no waste. And who in their right mind places a gigantic solar cell over a tree? Doesn’t matter anyways, judging by the comments on your page your just a troll…

BrokenChallengerWing @ 1:23 am #

@kotapaka you dont need a fucking degree to know how dangerous nuclear power is.i know it wont cause a nuclear blast but the radioactive materials it will send out will be enough. its why they give SUICIDE PILLS to people who live in a area near a nuclear power plant.if you knew what you were really talking about you hate nuclear power too.of course if youd like to know how safe and effective nuclear power is,ask people who lived in Chernolbyl.even if america has strict polices, accidents happen

kotapaka @ 2:15 am #

@BrokenChallengerWing LOOOOOOOOOOOOOL call me when you get an engineering degree… or at least have read and understand a little bit about nuclear physics because you can’t argue without such knowledge and if you had it you wouldn’t argue in the first place.

BrokenChallengerWing @ 2:31 am #

@kotapaka jesus fucking christ you cant be serouis. Nuclear energy is the most dangerous. you can have a melt down and ruin the local land. also the waste of nuclear power plants is highly radioactive and very dangerous. you have to put it in a special facility that gets checked daily for leakage or else itll sap into the earth and nearby water. solar energy can be put on top of cars,houses and put them mostly in deserts(where there is no plants) nuclear is the worst energy around

kotapaka @ 3:24 am #

@BrokenChallengerWing Lol nuclear is disaster? Lol lol. Do you have any idea what nuclear energy is? Do you have any idea what you are talking about? Obviously trees need solar energy to survive and trees compete against each other for energy. If we put a solar panel over them you obviously are going to kill those trees. Nuclear is the safest, cleanest, most abundant energy source there is. However oil was discovered first so all technology runs on oil.

BrokenChallengerWing @ 3:39 am #

@kotapaka wait??? how are we stealing solar energy from other organisms? and nuclear is a even worse disaster

bearboneskentuck @ 4:22 am #

yea…but try and buy this at a solar store or from the factory!

mynameis950 @ 5:21 am #

QUICK! Wall-E needs a solar makeover!

MrEnergyCzar @ 5:52 am #

it would be great if this could be done….

Mandoflash @ 6:22 am #

This just spawns the usual drivel about things that “could happen”, with pure fantasy in the numbers department, followed by the usual conspiracy theory that the oil companies own the patents. Case in point about 3Kwh daily usage. Uh-uh!. The bottom line is, the sheer volume of these divices which haven’t been made yet would have to be huge to give humans the equivalent of the present day system.

kotapaka @ 6:25 am #

Solar is BS. I’m not saying that we shouldn’t use it but the power that reaches earth is very small. Also if you start capturing this energy then you are depriving organisms from solar energy. You can’t really do this. Nuclear power is the way. There is power problem – we’ve got nuclear so people shouldn’t be freaking out.

ananiasacts @ 6:38 am #

I wonder why plants never stumbled onto this technology. It would seem like those that did would have a significant advantage if there’s five times more power to be had in the infrared portion of the spectrum. I’m dubious of the claim.

henrykay01 @ 7:20 am #

I invented a breakthrough source of energy that contradicts the law of conservation of energy. I have a PROOF that there are electrodynamic phenomena that contradict the law of conservation of energy. I am looking for $6M for a prototype and patents.
H. Tomasz Grzybowski
tel. +48-512-933-540

Zbawka @ 7:57 am #

@Zbawka – This is all true. I think, that this production is not in full swing. There is another one called KONARKA from Boston, MA area. One thing is that foil painted ink requires much more area to cover in order to produce reasonable amount of KW for utility application. The SILICON based crystalline modules are only suitable for residential or commercial use, at this time.

sraztec01 @ 8:49 am #

@CalyptratusTZM I agree I had to turn off the audio.

CalyptratusTZM @ 8:52 am #

All good text and talk, but WHY oh WHY did it have to be played at once? Ho can honestly say they can read one thing and listen to something else, and remember ANYTHING of it?
-c’mon dude…

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