Comments on: Silicon Solar Thin Film Manufactured for Under $0.70 Cents a Watt by Swiss Company Oerlikon

By: Captain Obvious

Captain Obvious — Sun, 12 Jun 2011 19:52:00 +0000

Since it was your idea, how about calculating the payback time and reporting back? Also, how far would you go on a day’s charging? I think you would learn a lot.

By: Mata

Mata — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 12:59:29 +0000

Actually the new Kai has a space for 10 more glasses than the actual Kai 1200… and with help with light trapping there is able to reduce the amount of Si on the a-Si and µc-Si cells… this reduction of thickness represents a reduction in production time…

to be able to lower the costs to $0.70 is made by the reduction of deposition time and not by saving matrial

nice article

By: John

John — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 02:16:35 +0000

Hey so has anyone considered putting this stuff on the windows for a car so that the windows automatically trickle charge the batteries? I’m just thinking that would be a really cool way to recharge your hybrid or regular cars battery.

By: Susan Kraemer

Susan Kraemer — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 19:55:01 +0000

NREL rated these. Plus, if anything, these kinds of engineering-heavy EU companies err on the side of being ridiculously modest! I once covered a world-leader EU engineering company that had been around for about a hundred years, that described itself on the website as “solvent’.

By: sola

sola — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 19:16:58 +0000

If their process is really capable of producing 12% efficient cells for 70c/watt than I would say it is a big comeback for amorphous solar.

By: remodeling

remodeling — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 06:24:51 +0000

We are still only scratching the surface. The wattage produced needs to be greatly increased to make it more desirable for homeowners. As a remodeling contractor, I am still finding it difficult to get many people on board with the idea of putting solar panels on their roofs. With a higher wattage return on their dollar, it would be easier to show the benefits.