Researchers at Swansea University are developing a new, eco-friendly nanomaterial that they claim could generate as much electricity as 50 wind farms.
They are investigating ways of painting solar cells, which efficient at capturing low light radiation, onto the flexible steel surfaces commonly used for cladding buildings. This could then create buildings that could power themselves!!
Researchers are working closely with a company that produces around 100 million square meters of steel building cladding a year. If all this cladding was treated with the new solar cell material, it could be generating 4,500 gigawatts of electricity a year, the equivalent of 50 wind farms!
Bobby Thomas | 17-May-08 at 7:26 pm | Permalink
I like the idea. But I think we could serve ourselves better if we pursued a combo of Fuel Cell + Solar + Wind. The wind and solar charging capacitors and the Fuel Cell acting as the realtime power source.
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