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Is anyone looking into manufacturing this? I think it would be awesome to have this as a film that could be put on windows. Of course the main issue there is
by DamnYuppie 13y ago
Is anyone looking into manufacturing this? I think it would be awesome to have this as a film that could be put on windows. Of course the main issue there is getting that energy back into the home and power grid.
- aidenn0 13y agoThis is totally uninteresting for anything other than PR unless it is cheap. Land for solar-cells is not the primary cost of solar energy and won't be for quite some time.
- hyperbovine 13y agoBut isn't the idea to decentralize power generation?
- aidenn0 13y agoI don't see big advantages to a slightly decentralized power generated system, and a fully decentralized system won't be feasible at a minimum until we have much better energy storage (and even then, there is insufficient insolation for most tall buildings to be self-sufficient with solar).
- DamnYuppie 13y agoI see a huge benefit in that if this is in my house then my power consumption off the grid, in aggregate, is less. You say land isn't the issue, but access to it for the average person still is. Yet if I can coat the windows of my own domicile I consider that a net positive.