Awesome! If true I’d finally be able to get off the grid and actually afford it.
If solar panels were inexpensive, they would have been huge sellers by now. Not just among the hippies, but also among real, non-smelly people that just want to save a buck or two rather than pay it to the electric company.
5 years though? Heck, I’d like it on my roof tomorrow.
Efficiency is a major part of the problem with solar. If true this would be good news.
To quote Nigel Tufnel:
“It’s like, how much more black could this be? and the answer is none. None more black.”
i hope this is not more empty promises. I’ve have seen so many of this type of articles that end no where.
surely they should be able to give us a demonstration of this tech on their prototype right now, right?
It's a good thing wildlife and plants don't require sunlight, or it might be a problem.
Within five years, the research team believes they will have a product that complements conventional PV solar panels.
This is weasel-wording, pure and simple. If his technology is nearly 5 times as efficient, and as the article says can be cheaply manufactured, then there is no need for convential PV panels anymore, they are totally obsolete. So why would he say his project "complements" them?
Read between the lines and you can learn a lot of what is not being said here. That quote tells me there is some fatal flaw with this technology and the article is not revealing that flaw.
Capturing the light and then converting it to energy are two different things, unless the the tech is there to convert the energy then this can only complement existing tech.
“Once the funding is secure, ...”
As I suspected
I’ve seen the infrared nano-antennae concept before. It is legit as a physical concept, but whether you get 90% efficiency is a whole other subject, especially at all transmitted frequencies. I suspect it is 90% at one wavelength and probably not in the visible spectrum.
I’m already planning to fly over there with my Popular Mechanics jet pack to pick up a couple or three of these new fangled solar panels!
They've got my attention...
Cool.
ping
This sounds like a photocopy of a typewritten paper made by a friend of the professor’s friend’s friend that thought he might invest $100 into it and see what investors his faxed press release would bring in.
It’s amazing that every free energy project is always “five years” away from release.
This is total bullshit.
. It`s called a Sunflower.
So... I can power my laptop with the heat generated by my laptop.