Posted by Sass Peress | Posted in Solar Technology, Uncategorized | Posted on 10-05-2010
MIT has discovered a way to print solar cells on paper. This is not knew (printing on flexible substrate) what is new is the use of paper as a substrate.
Now while the efficiency of the cells is now maxed out at 2% it simply reminds me that while much of the world is focused on rooftops, there are so many other uses for power yet unexplored because there is no source that this kind of revolutionary cell needs revolutionary thinking. You won’t power a roof for a home much with that type of efficiency, yet we need to use the imagination to find applications for such novel ways of creating power. The microchip industry got out of the box to create multitude new uses when the cost of making them went way down. That’s what happens with power too.
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