Nanosolar 1GW Solar Power Film Coater
by admin on Saturday, October 31st, 2009 | 25 Comments
World’s first 1GW solar production tool. Breakthrough in the production of solar electricity cells: Simply printed (using ink with semiconductor nanoparticles).
Printing is a non-vacuum coating process that eliminates the need for a high-vacuum chamber as it is conventionally used. Printing is 200 times more capital efficient: A twenty times slower high-vacuum tool costs ten times as much.
More info see Nanosolar blog at www.nanosolar.com/blog3
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The great thing …
The great thing about solar technology is that it’s increasing its output at an exponential rate (doubling every two years). Nano-solar technology seems to be the most efficient way to go about harnessing the sun’s energy. So remember that next time someone tries to tell you we could not possibly meet all our energy needs with solar technology. Within the next ten to twenty years it will become a real alternative energy source that fossil fuels won’t be able to compete with.
how does the …
how does the circuitry work on these? someone in the know fill me in!
Licensing the …
Licensing the technology would be a great leap forward for production.
The ink is …
The ink is solidified with heat and Google has it installed on their roof. Nova series The Big Energy Gamble talks about this company some. Can view the show online at Netflix. Nanosolar’s home page also has a link to the video. Must be doing something right since the California plant has current production sold for the next three years.
how do they …
how do they solidify the ink
To ronmann606
If …
To ronmann606
If you use this land to build a solar power plant, you could make additional fortune from it for yourself and so as for your children. If you are interested in it, please contact me for how to make it happened
So where is it?
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So where is it?
Has anyone actually seen an installation?
The heat from sun …
The heat from sun light is due the infrared spectrum, and this ones are almost not absorbed in most solar pannels.
Only one solar pannel is able to absorbe infrared and convert into energy, and could generate some energy even few hors after sundown, since the heat from ground emite infrared. This pannel use micro antenna or something like
absorbing the …
absorbing the energy itself would have a cooling effect.
Excess energy could help power a coldsuit.
No worries. It …
No worries. It appears to be a very smart investment… ($22000 assuming cost of 1 cent/second and 2 foot printer) but good luck getting your hands on the stuff! How will they keep us working hard when we have our own free energy!? They will maximize profit and chicken feed us the stuff at stupid prices… I hope China steals the technology!!!
Wow thanks for …
Wow thanks for figuring that out. I’d assume it would cost an insane amount that I’d have to borrow money for. I’m just wondering if it would be a smart investment considering the land is not in use.
100 feet per minute …
100 feet per minute = 1 GW per year
17.5 days of printing to cover 980 acres (assuming 3 feet printer)
26 days with 2 foot printer…
It’s just ink and plastic (oil), so like a real printer… maybe 1 cent per second ; P
very cheap indeed… but how much is cheap 4 u?
I have 980 acres …
I have 980 acres I’m not currently using. How much would it cost to cover this area?
This is a really …
This is a really cool technology, less than a dollar per watt is very attractive, if this was available at near those costs existing rebates would cover doing over a 4 kW system which should be fine for a two story modern house.
In the future this …
In the future this “ink” could be used in jackets or shirts, to help who work in sun, so the energy would activate somekind of cooling system.
Can i buy one of …
Can i buy one of this machine?
Very intensive one …
Very intensive one – I like this vid!
if they can produce …
if they can produce it as cheap as newpaper i will buy some
actually it is out, …
actually it is out, just readily available to the public. Enormous companies bought Nanosolar’s entire yearly stock of cell production. Sucks for us : )
thank you I’ll keep …
thank you I’ll keep a look out
OK so if its out …
OK so if its out then why when I go to there web site this is what I get? ”
Light-weight solar-electric cell foil which can be cut to any size. Non-fragile. No soldering required for electrical contact.
Available wholesale to strategic partners.
Additional products are presently in various stages of prototyping and development. Please subscribe to our mailing list to be notified.” So it is still not out for the people.
e-mail info @ …
e-mail info @ nanosolar . com. I tried it last year. There were purchasing signs in the sight then. I tried to order to get them to this country and they said that orders for this were already full. I found out about the Dubai thing via a friend who works there.
IT IS OUT! Dubai …
IT IS OUT! Dubai has bought all (no joke). It is not enough to generate power for buildings. But at under $1 a Watt, it is certainly cost effective. The UAE people (I don’t know what to call them) are like wallpapers on their buildings. It is part of their project to make it a place that runs without emitting carbon to the environment. It is made in Michigan, USA.
I have stated this …
I have stated this before and I’ll say it now. Bull this is not even out it probably not even on the drawing board, It’s a nice dream. if it is out could some one tell me how to get some.
It’s still all bull …
It’s still all bull, if they do make them I could buy them period. Won’t happen, to threatening to the present power structure.