According to the consortium’s website, the difference between existing solar panels and the technology it is developing is that “organic cells offer the potential to allow printing directly onto materials such as roofing and windows, and therefore open intriguing building integrated design opportunities.” The consortium is comprised of members of CSIRO, Melbourne and Monash universities. They’ve now managed to reduce the solar panels to the size of a coin. They achieved results by using ordinary 3D printers adapted to work with solar ink. Its very cheap. The way in which it looks and works is quite different to conventional silicon rooftop solar, Scholes went on. It can be made to be semitransparent – we can use it for a tinted window scenario. The team is now in the process of developing a spray-painted coating. The big implication for the future is that once they’ve got the process streamlined of adapting plastic for solar panel use streamlined, powering entire skyscrapers would be no big deal. We print them onto plastic in more or less the same way we print our plastic banknotes, Scholes also said. Connecting our solar panels is as simple as connecting a battery. rt/news/186716-solar-panel...
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