New Solar Cells Will be Printed Like Money

Written by Ariel Schwartz
Published on February 20th, 2009
4 Comments
Posted in Solar Energy

Australian scientists at CSIRO’s Victorian Organic Solar Cell Consortium (VICOSC) are on a quest to make solar cells as easy to print as money. Trials of the flexible, large area, cost-effective, reel-to-reel printable plastic solar cells will even be conducted by Securency International — a banknote printing company.

CSIRO researchers have devised a way to essentially print organic solar cells onto polymer. Once the cells become commercially viable, it will be easy  — and cheap –to install them over large areas like rooftops.

VICOSC’s 3-year $A12 million project is at its halfway point, with trials six months ahead of schedule. Members of VICOSC include researchers from CSIRO Future Manufacturing Flagship, University of Melbourne, Monash University.

Photo Credit: CSIRO

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4 Responses to “New Solar Cells Will be Printed Like Money”

  1. Scott_T Says:
    February 20th, 2009 at 1:18 pm

    When they say printed like money it doesn’t bode well for cost.

  2. Sply Says:
    February 20th, 2009 at 9:52 pm

    What is the stock symbol for them?

  3. K Says:
    February 27th, 2009 at 8:23 pm

    That’s lucrative money, doesn’t even need to be invested to gain value.

  4. Donald Grieve Says:
    April 28th, 2009 at 4:04 am

    How soon can we have this technology on our roofs and in our lives to save us from coal, nuclear energy?

    If you can send me information I would be happy to receive it?

    Is there a pilot scheme to discover the technology’s potential in real?

    Cheers Don Grieve