Crazy Steampunk Contraption Shoots Out Low Cost Solar Cells
A research team at the University of Toronto has cobbled together a crazy steampunk contraption that shoots out spray-on, low cost solar cells.
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Perovskite Solar Cells Beat New Records (In The Lab)
By James Wimberley News from the frontier of perovskite solar cell research: A team at China’s Huazhong University in Wuhan, working with pioneer Michael Grätzel at Lausanne, have fabricated cells without a hole transport layer, and done it by dripping a solution of the ingredients on to a carbon mesh. The cells … [continued]
Size Matters: New See Through Solar Windows Go Big
The company New Energy Technologies is reporting a breakthrough in their see through solar window technology and it’s all about size. When New Energy began developing a solar glass coating several years ago, it started out as a solution in a vial before progressing to a tiny square. In the … [continued]
Stained Glass Windows On Cathedral Are Solar Panels
Originally published on Green Building Elements (with minor edits). No, I’m not talking about letting sunlight into the room. These windows actually generate electricity! They are being installed in the Cathedral of the Holy Family in Saskatoon, Saskatechewan, and they are connected to the local electricity grid. Solar panels are usually connected to … [continued]
Solar Power Windows Fast Approaching Commercial Production
Commercial production of solar windows, using the patented SolarWindow spray-on solar power coating system, may be just around the corner. A recent announcement from US building integrated photovoltaics (BIPV) developer New Energy Technologies Ltd. (which we’ve been following for years) has us feeling that the time may soon come. As … [continued]
Your Tax Dollars At Work: Invisible Solar Cells That Look Like Glass
If researchers could develop a low cost, invisible solar cell to sub in for ordinary window glass, the result would be a sustainability twofer of epic proportions. Windows are notorious as a weak spot for energy efficiency, even in newer buildings. That goes double for millions of older buildings in … [continued]
Grid Parity In Sight For New Low-Cost Solar Cell
That light barreling down upon us from the end of the tunnel is solar power as cheap as fossil fuels. The latest breakthrough is a low-cost solar cell manufactured with the help of Gallium Arsenide, a compound of the “poor metal” gallium and arsenic. It definitely does not sound like something … [continued]
Spray-On LED Wallpaper for Your Spray-On Battery
Not too far in the future, spray-on energy efficient LED lighting will be applied to paper, plastic or perhaps fabric and other surfaces as well. That could cause more than a little excitement among architects and interior designers in terms of the new aesthetic range. When combined with spray-on … [continued]
Spray-On Lithium-Ion Batteries Can Turn Any Surface Into a Battery
Rice University researchers have developed an unusual type of lithium-ion battery. It is a liquid that can be painted or sprayed onto any surface. The research team mixed various paints to determine which were best for the construction of the 5-layered components of a lithium-ion battery. Those components are: … [continued]
“Invisible” Solar Panels are on the Way
Window gazers of the future may soon find themselves looking right through an energy-producing transparent glass solar panel, if the folks at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory are on the right track. Working with the company New Energy Technologies, Inc., the lab has produced a transparent photovoltaic module that … [continued]
