Comments on: MIT Team Creates Solar Cell Array on Sheet of Paper

By: Bruce Miller

Bruce Miller — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 16:58:00 +0000

How does the American scientific thrust towards Solar, Wind, Wave, Hydro, Tidal, Geothermal, Bio-mass, and even Humanure digestion for storable methane fuels and top-soil building fertilizers, stack up against the new LFTR reactor designs from China, that burn safer, more plentiful Thorium, are plutonium free, waste material safe after 3 hundred years. ten times cheaper to build, to fuel?
Will Americans ever exploit the North Dakota “Saudi-Arabia” of perpetual Wind Energy, after all, Denmark is now a net exporter of energy using their Wind Turbines? Ezekiel 34:29 Hemp? Will America ever legalize hemp, a plant that yields clothing, food, oil, shelter, medicine, to humankind, requires no fertilizers, only poor soil, no tilling, little care and can in some locations grow 3 or 4 crops a year?
As Asians buying new cars, (China built more new cars, with empty gasoline tanks, this year than all North America), drive the price of gasoline on world markets ever higher, with strong bids in stable, desirable, Yuan and the American bids fade with their weakening, fiat, over manipulated U.S. dollar, will Americans look away from the “Rubber wheeled gasoline fueled, McMansion at the factory door” paradigm, and adapt to the new Asian (Chinese) “Thorium nuclear electric bullet train network and associated nuclear-electric powered human infrastructure” the one daisy-chaining Pan-Eurasia as we speak, the one that requires no expensive foreign oil imports from parasite countries, OPEC and the Saudis, no need to support them in extreme riches as a tax on our efforts, our labor?
Can MIT match Tsinghua University, China, with similar or better reactors, Thorium reactors, safe reactors cheap to build reactors, humanocidal plutonium free reactors, reactors with benign waste after only 3 hundred year storage? Even above and beyond their “Solar Miracles”, ready for the commercial markets, restricted by the Corporatist grants, money MIT survives on, is coerced by, or at the very least, ‘influenced’ by? Can MIT produce a smaller effective safe LFTR Thorium fueled reactor or better? Will the existing U.S. Corporatist structure allow this? Remember the EV-1? Aero-gel, super insulations, NiMh batteries, Euro-styled 40% more efficient Turbo Diesel engines complete with “scrubbers”, Planned obsolescence in American car makes, models, and countless other scewings of the market-place in favor of the shareholders not the customers not the american people.

By: Electric38

Electric38 — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 04:10:00 +0000

I believe the efficiencies for this particular type are in the 1% area -bad news. The good news is that several countries have jumped into the challenge. We should be seeing several types of solar ink with printing press production speeds. At this point in time a 3 to 4% efficiency has been reported. This should improve shortly as a blend of new technologies might be able to be utilized.
Its a shame that on line worldwide research isn’t taking place to forward this technology to help negate the effects of global warming. A web site similar to the “big shot camera” which utilizes an 80 language teaching and discussion platform.
Rooftop solar in the form of “plug and play” type installations should follow the efficiency improvements. This should pump up the small business and residential economy as everyone can benefit from a $200-$400 extra dollars a month via eliminating their power bills.

By: Dan

Dan — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 20:27:00 +0000

Pretty interesting stuff. I would be really curious to know what type of efficiencies they are achieving?

By: John

John — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 19:14:00 +0000

When can I buy it and what is the wattage per square foot? Also, what is the longevity & life cycle like? The article doesn’t even say what it is made of.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 11:56:00 +0000

By: Anumakonda Jagadeesh

Anumakonda Jagadeesh — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 11:05:00 +0000

Great innovation which will revolutionalise use of solar energy for power generation. Congratulations MIT Team.

Dr.A.Jagadeesh Nellore (AP),India
Wind Energy Expert
E-mail: anumakonda.jagadeesh@gmail.com

By: jonathan

jonathan — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 10:21:00 +0000

awesome this is what i like to see
soon i can have my macbook covered in these!