[AT] Garden tractor???/Now RF hazard

[Rupert]

Hello charlie,
	Do you know the name of the company that is about to bring the thin 
film voltaics to market? Google is not friendly to me today.

Rupert

On 1/26/2010 2:59 PM, charliehill wrote:
> Yes Mattias I think you are right about the heavy metals involved.
>
>   I know there was someone making a solar thin film on something like Mylar
> and I remember they were somewhere in northern Europe.
>
> The folks I am talking about are a new company and a new process somewhere
> on the west coast of the US and they are "printing" the PV on aluminum foil
> of some sort.  I would guess that it would also be on a base like mylar.
> However I don't think this is translucent like the thin film you are
> speaking of.
>
> I keep looking for articles on the progress of the European thin film but
> haven't seen anything in a while.  Supposedly the aluminum foil based
> material in the US is about ready to go to market.
>
> Charlie
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mattias Kessén"<davidbrown950 at gmail.com>
> To: "Antique tractor email discussion group"<at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, January 26, 2010 4:37 PM
> Subject: Re: [AT] Garden tractor???/Now RF hazard
>
>
>> From what I've read but I read it quickly it contained a lot of rare
> and toxic materials. They are sure on the right way but seems to still
> have a long way to go. There was also a group at a swedish university
> (can't remember if it was Chalmers or KTH) studying the same thing.
> The Swedish scientists claimed that it was about ten years left until
> their results were ready for commercial interests. This is all very
> promising since you could tape it to windows etc. I wish I'd taken
> more time reading the article maybe the next time.
>
> Mattias
>
> 2010/1/26 charliehill<charliehill at embarqmail.com>:
>> Hmmm maybe that explains the alleged sightings of UFO's over big power
>> transmission lines. grins.
>>
>> That's all very interesting but I'm scared to death of stuff that you
>> can't
>> see that will slip up and bite you.
>>
>> On a related line of thought. I read yesterday that some company that is
>> being partially financed by Google has developed a way to print
>> photovoltaic
>> "conductors" (I guess is the right term) onto aluminum foil. They are
>> about
>> to get up and running and say they will be turning out thin film solar
>> electric panels at about $1.00 per Watt.
>> If they are able to do that and the stuff is long term reliable it will
>> change the complexion of our energy use.
>>
>> Charlie
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