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Directory of technologies and resources relating to solar paint.
Plan to turn rooftops, walls and windows into cheap solar cells - Cheaper solar cells – roughly one-tenth the cost of current day prices – could be available within three to five years thanks to a manufacturing procedure that uses nanoparticle ‘inks’ to print them like newspaper or to spray-paint them onto the sides of buildings or rooftops. Even windows could become solar cells thanks to the semi-transparent inks. (GizMag August 25, 2009)
Colourful idea sparks renewable electricity from paint -If steel cladding weretreated with the photovoltaic material, and assuming a conservative 5% energy conversion rate, then we could be looking at generating 4,500 gigawatts of electricity through the solar cells annually. That’s the equivalent output of roughly 50 wind farms. (''Inhabitat'' March 24, 2008)
Directory:Paintable plastic solar cells using quantum dots - Paintable plastic solar cells that can harness the sun's invisible, infrared rays, and could deliver up to five times the power of the most advanced photovoltaic cells today. Combines specially-designed minute particles called quantum dots, three to four nanometers across, with a polymer to make a plastic that can detect energy in the infrared.
Silicon Nanocrystals for Superefficient Solar Cells - Silicon nanocrystals, also called quantum dots, could lead to a new type of solar cell that is cheap and twice as efficient, by producing 2 or 3 electrons per photon of high-energy sunlight. They could theoretically be 40% efficient in flat panels or over 60% efficient with concentrated sunlight. (MIT Technology Review Aug. 15, 2007)
Cyrium Technologies - Developing a photovoltaic solar cell technology using semiconductor quantum dot NanoTechnology to increase photovoltaic solar cell efficiency by 40% above the state-of-the-art products.
Quantum Dot Recipe May Lead To Cheaper Solar Panels - Scientists at Rice University have developed a new method for cost-effectively producing four-armed (tetrapod) quantum dots that have previously been shown to be particularly effective at converting sunlight into electrical energy. Their method achieves 90% tetrapods, whereas the best previous method only got as high as 30%. (Science Daily May 4, 2007) (See Slashdot discussion)
SOLAR GENERAL:
Directory:Solar - index of resources
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PowerPedia:Solar Energy - Encyclopedic review of history and future
Directory:Solar Energy Research and Development
SOLAR MODALITIES:
Directory:Concentrated Solar Power
Directory:Solar Infrared Harvesting
Directory:Home Generation:Solar PV
Directory:Photovoltaic Research and Development
Directory:Home Generation:Solar Heating
Directory:Solar:Photosynthesis Imitation
Directory:Floating Solar Chimney
Directory:Space Based Solar Power
SOLAR INFRASTRUCTURE
Directory:Silicon - more efficient uses, alternatives, methods
Directory:Synchronous Solar Heliostat
Directory:Solar:Installation and Consultation
SOLAR APPLICATIONS:
Directory:Walipini Underground Greenhouses
OS:Solar Ethanol - distiller design
Directory:Energy from Roadways
Directory:Solar Pavement - black-body absorption of the asphalt
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