well, it's actually one Euro, but by the time they'd
get a production line going, the falling dollar would
make it about $1.50...
anyway:
"Imagine wearing a jacket or rucksack that charges up your mobile phone
while you take a walk. Or a tent whose flysheet charges batteries all day
so campers can have light all night. Or a roll-out plastic sheet you can
place on a car's rear window shelf to power a child's DVD player.
"Such applications could soon become a reality thanks to a light, flexible
solar panel that is a little thicker than photographic film and can easily
be applied to everyday fabrics. The thin, bendy solar panels, which could
be on the market within three years, are the fruit of a three-nation
European Union research project called H-Alpha Solar (H-AS)
...
"A projected full-scale manufacturing plant would produce panels at a cost
of about 1 euro per watt...
rest at:
http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn6802
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Seems like a regurgitation of what the claims were for A-si 10 years ago (
amorphous silicon )
This is being produced/sold today , at a cost of MORE than Crystalline
silicon , thought they do have flexible panels ...
http://www.uni-solar.com/cons_products_marine.html
> well, it's actually one Euro, but by the time they'd
> get a production line going, the falling dollar would
> make it about $1.50...
> anyway:
> "Imagine wearing a jacket or rucksack that charges up your mobile phone
> while you take a walk. Or a tent whose flysheet charges batteries all day
> so campers can have light all night. Or a roll-out plastic sheet you can
> place on a car's rear window shelf to power a child's DVD player.
> "Such applications could soon become a reality thanks to a light, flexible
> solar panel that is a little thicker than photographic film and can easily
> be applied to everyday fabrics. The thin, bendy solar panels, which could
> be on the market within three years, are the fruit of a three-nation
> European Union research project called H-Alpha Solar (H-AS)
> ...
> "A projected full-scale manufacturing plant would produce panels at a cost
> of about 1 euro per watt...
> rest at:
> http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn6802
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> _____________________________________________________
> Knowledge may be power, but communications is the key
> dannyb@panix.com
> [to foil spammers, my address has been double rot-13 encoded]
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> get a production line going, the falling dollar would
> make it about $1.50...
> anyway:
> "Imagine wearing a jacket or rucksack that charges up your mobile phone
> while you take a walk. Or a tent whose flysheet charges batteries all day
> so campers can have light all night. Or a roll-out plastic sheet you can
> place on a car's rear window shelf to power a child's DVD player.
> "Such applications could soon become a reality thanks to a light, flexible
> solar panel that is a little thicker than photographic film and can easily
> be applied to everyday fabrics. The thin, bendy solar panels, which could
> be on the market within three years, are the fruit of a three-nation
> European Union research project called H-Alpha Solar (H-AS)
> ...
> "A projected full-scale manufacturing plant would produce panels at a cost
> of about 1 euro per watt...
> rest at:
> http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn6802
> --
> _____________________________________________________
> Knowledge may be power, but communications is the key
> dannyb@panix.com
> [to foil spammers, my address has been double rot-13 encoded]