Researchers Use Carbon Nanotubes to Make Solar Cells Affordable, Flexible ScienceDaily (Sep. 27, 2011) Researchers from Northwestern University have developed a carbon-based material that could revolutionize the way solar power is harvested. The new solar cell material -- a transparent conductor made of carbon nanotubes -- provides an alternative to current technology, which is mechanically brittle and reliant on a relatively rare mineral. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/09/110927124914.htm out with the old, in with the new..... knowledge evolving better catch up or become obsolete
Not so fast. Carbon nanotubes are made of cheap materials, but the process to make them is difficult and expensive. Current price is about $20,000 per kg. Meanwhile indium, the "expensive" material CNTs are supposed to replace, costs about $500 per kg.
i looked it up too but how much to make the film per sq meter? whats the process? what's the output in relation to silicon based in relation to cost/kwh? share!
Solar industry could be done in by subsidy changes... Solar subsidy changes could deal 'fatal blow' to industry 21 December 2011 - The government plans to restrict solar funding to homes that meet tough insulation standards
The industry should rather focus on two big alternative energy sources geothermical and tidal energies and NEUs (nanotube enhanced ultracapacitors, battries constructed from these can last up to a century, no more waste of acids, alkalines and lithiums and such) The real green and clean energy is right in front of us at shore, and right under our feet. This system/empire does not like these two big inexhaustable alternative energy sources, because it's power is based on oil and goal (and dangerous nuclear) Solar energy is nice for the smaller things were no electric energy is available, and for handheld/portable devices, on campers, backpackers, small electric boats, buoys, Sahara.
