SOLAR REVOLUTION – Solar Paint
Ted Sargent is a pioneer in solar science. He’s working on solar technology that could literally be woven into every aspect of daily life, from our clothes to our roads, using what is known as a spray-on solar cell. The implications for our energy systems are profound. As Ted says, “Solar energy is not just an exciting science problem, but an incredibly important human problem.”
Ted is working on solar nanotechnology with the potential to make solar energy very cheap and allow society to collect it on a huge scale. Currently, solar technology costs more to build and install than most people are willing to pay. Solar panels, for example, the technology most commonly associated with solar energy, are installed on your rooftop. The cost of collecting one kilowatt per hour of solar energy (about a third of the electricity an average household uses on any given day) is about $11,000.
Not only are panels expensive to install, they capture only the visible portion of the sun’s rays so they work only on sunny days. Ted’s focus is the infrared portion of the sun’s rays which accounts for more than half of all solar energy. What’s more, infrared energy is available to us even in cloudy weather.
A quantum dot is a semiconductor nanostructure that confines the motion of conduction band electrons, valence band holes, or excitons (bound pairs of conduction band electrons and valence band holes) in all three spatial directions. The confinement can be due to electrostatic potentials (generated by external electrodes, doping, strain, impurities), the presence of an interface between different semiconductor materials (e.g. in core-shell nanocrystal systems), the presence of the semiconductor surface (e.g. semiconductor nanocrystal), or a combination of these. A quantum dot has a discrete quantized energy spectrum. The corresponding wave functions are spatially localized within the quantum dot, but extend over many periods of the crystal lattice. A quantum dot contains a small finite number (of the order of 1-100) of conduction band electrons, valence band holes, or excitons, i.e., a finite number of elementary electric charges.
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@CalyptratusTZM …
@CalyptratusTZM I agree I had to turn off the audio.
All good text and …
All good text and talk, but WHY oh WHY did it have to be played at once? Ho can honestly say they can read one thing and listen to something else, and remember ANYTHING of it?
-c’mon dude…
I’ve seen some …
I’ve seen some stuff on Nanosolar aswell, do not know why its not available yet. The exciting thing about them is that they will have to capability to serve mass amount of people for a low cost. They print that material like newspaper. What if they could deliver it the same way? ; )
@jakigi: Really? …
@jakigi: Really? Then tell us some of the patent numbers, please. Oh, don’t forget to remove your tin foil hat first…
So it’s still just …
So it’s still just bla,bla,bla…when normal human being is able to buy one of these $0.50 per watt,then you can talk revolution and change from coal and oil..I bet that it is possible to give these panels out for that price,just government doesn’t want it..good luck with all that beautiful nano technology never ever be seen on the market!!
The Marsians bought …
The Marsians bought the patent (together with the ones for nuclear fusion).
yay for tyranny – I …
yay for tyranny – I mean corporations. A decent film would be good enough – its just all bs-y right now.
One person’s …
One person’s opinion, and I kind of like it myself since it’s so optimistic, is that due to the worldwide recession, the big companies will have trouble buying off the little guy, therefore the little guy will finally be able to flourish instead of giving in to payoffs to feed his family and etc.
That will finally get some of these inventions out to the public so it can see some real progress.
I built my own …
I built my own Solar Panels for under $100 and a Solar Water Heater for UNDER $10 that are currently powering my 1700 Square Foot home! I used the simple plans at:
ambigrid-review.blogspot(DOT)com
Hey, check out my …
Hey, check out my website at ScientificallyGreener(Dot) com and get all the new and improved Equipments to build or buy your own solar and wind energy systems ScientificallyGreener(Dot) com is a website that sells the most modern environmental products available
The patents are …
The patents are owned by companies banking on fossil fuels.
Infrared Panels is …
Infrared Panels is the future
I have seen the …
I have seen the other video showing company named ‘Nanosolar’ running a production thin foil covered with very revolutionary photovoltaic material. This suppose to be third generation of photovoltaic, very sensitive absorbing broad rage of light spectrum photocells. The beauty of this photocells is the falling cost to produce that the 1W of electrical power going down right through $1 level. Suppose to be easy to make, but is nowhere to be seen on the market.
So where is the …
So where is the credibility? How do I know this is actually not some non-professional hiding behind a black screen?
best price I see …
best price I see for solar energy is 1.15/kw
fact is solar power costs 4 times more .
there is no benefit .
You want people to …
You want people to read & listen at the same time…Bad Idea.
I built my own …
I built my own solar panels which are currently providing energy for over half my home using the plans I downloaded at:
ambigrid-review.blogspot(DOT)com
That’s the problem, …
That’s the problem, they “invent” an idea then fish for funding to make a prototype which never appears. Meanwhile, you haven’t really invented anything until you can show a working model.
They claim to have …
They claim to have invented this five years ago. Where is it?
Couldn’t they make …
Couldn’t they make a way to put this on hybrid or electric cars? If so It would be a good idea. I mean surely I’m not the only person who’s thought of that.
Be smart – don’t …
Be smart – don’t pay any more electricity bills. more info: solar.xfollow.me (Copy to your browser’s address bar)
It will be really …
It will be really great if you can provide Solar Energy cheaply to society. It solves 99 % of todays world problems, earth problems. The great source is Sun which is free and runs another 7 billion years. Tap it if you can for society and provide cheaply. Right now Sun is burning India and many parts of the world with a day temp of 44 deg celcius. How much power you can produce and store if you tap it?
Er, wrong. Try to …
Er, wrong. Try to get your science from authoritative sources not BS hippy web sites. The VAST majority of surface heating on Earth comes from the ‘insolation’ process, factored for surface albedo effect i.e surface absorbtion of longwave infrared radiation from the sun. This is VERY basic met/climatology as taught in stage 1 university papers. Ever wonder why it’s colder at night?????
The reason is that …
The reason is that since Doyle & Shepard never had an original idea or contribution: Government & military feel COMFORTABLE with them! Because THEY never had an original science idea in centuries EITHER! So “Standards” Oil can give peanuts, in certainty that this bogus “research council” will never “rock the fuelist’s boat” !
“Tidal forces” has …
“Tidal forces” has nothing to do with water in this context: Heat is made – not disappaitted by Fe domain movements. Whole COUNTRIES are being supplied by thermal heat from Earth now: where have you been? My facts stem from mag. studies since Saturn ring-braiding was discovered. You are seriously behind in science with your imagined %-ages of solar-fed life-giving proportion! But Ted is an idiot who never invented anything (his grad-stud Mac Donald did). So why does he get paid & high position?