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We've covered flexible solar cells before, but researchers at the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) have developed some that can be painted or printed onto a surface. Lead researcher, Somenath Mitra, said, “the process is simple. Someday homeowners will even be able to print sheets of these solar cells with inexpensive home-based inkjet printers. Consumers can then slap the finished product on a wall, roof or billboard to create their own power stations.”
The process uses organic materials to create inexpensive solar cells as large as necessary. Mitra sees applications for the technology where solar power is currently unfeasible, “we foresee a great deal of interest in our work because solar cells can be inexpensively printed or simply painted on exterior building walls and/or roof tops. Imagine some day driving in your hybrid car with a solar panel painted on the roof, which is producing electricity to drive the engine. The opportunities are endless.”
If huge solar cells can be made cheaply, then there is no reason that the exterior of every building couldn't be entirely coated with them. This would obviously have massive implications, and make wide-scale micro-generation a very plausible solution to the energy crisis. It would also allow developing countries, particularly those in very sunny climates, to create all the free power they needed.
::NJIT via ::Engadget
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Do Treehugger writers read Treehugger themselves? These cells were covered in another post just six days ago. It even had the same picture!
You probably missed it because it was wrongly tagged - 'alternative energy' instead of 'solar'.