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A Solar Panel on Every Building™.
Nanosolar is on track to make solar electricity: cost-efficient for ubiquitous deployment - mass-produced on a global scale - available in many versatile forms. Nanosolar has developed proprietary technology that makes it possible to simply roll-print solar cells that require only 1/100th as thick an absorber as a silicon-wafer cell -- yet deliver similar performance and durability. Our technology dramatically lowers the process cost and complexity involved in the production of thin-film solar cells and makes it possible to scale production very rapidly. The result sets the standard for the technology and products that make it possible to put A Solar Panel on Every Building™.
Stephen Forrest -- electrical engineering professor
Peter Peumans -- graduate student
"In the end, you would have a sheet of solar cells that you just unroll and put on a roof."
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UCLA Engineering | UCLA Solar Cell
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A recent invention in solar power has been developed by Professor Vivian Alberts at the University of Johannesburg, which uses a micro-thin metallic film, that will make solar electricity five times less expensive than traditional solar photovoltaic cells. For the first time, solar electricity will be economically feasible, cheaper than coal and can be implemented locally for use in homes, neighborhoods, businesses, towns and communities worldwide without reliance only on a central utility grid. We like that story.