Nanosolar is coming out with their new product PowerSheet. This paper thin sheet is a solar panel in disguise. The panels are basically printed on a sheet of aluminum foil in a process that is much like printing a newspaper. The result is a product that can be rapidly produced at greatly reduced costs. The best part is that the product uses not silicon. Silicon is a very expensive material in short supply used on most photovaltic panels. Even worse, up to 70 percent gets wasted during manufacturing. So you’re paying for a lot of material waste that doesn’t help produce your electricity. Though Nanosolar hasn’t publicly released their product, we all have high hopes of a much less expensive solar alternative. To see more information, check out Popular Science’s article and make sure you click on the “See How It Works” button.
If you’re anxious to hear costs and advantages, go to their website. They don’t have anything up that specifially mentions the PowerSheet yet, but they explain the thin sheet technology. I signed up to their mailing list to hear about costs when it comes out. You can too, but I’ll do my best to post the costs here when it comes out.
I’d like to see a solar power system that’s like putting an apartment above the garage one day. I’d like to see one that produces so much excess electricity that your power company will be pay you enough to start a savings account on. Instead of saving money and the environment, preservation would become you own personal home business… wouldn’t that be nice.
