[AT] Ot: solar energy: was Re: Garden tractor???/Now RF hazard

[Guy Fay]

Nanosolar has been in production for about a year. They're in production in 
California, having another factory either in production or about to be in 
production soon in Germany I believe.
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Thanks Charlie. The rightup sure sounds like they may have made useful
headway in voltaic development. I just might have to think about
converting my place over to solar. :-)

Rupert

On 1/27/2010 1:35 AM, charliehill wrote:
> Hi Rupert.  I sent that info to the list earlier, right after my first 
> post
> but for some reason it never got there.  Here it is again.
>
> http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/09/nanosolar/
>
> Charlie
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Rupert"<rwenig2 at xplornet.com>
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>
>
> 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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