CelloMom On Cars on Nostr: THIS is the moment I've been waiting for! I've always wanted a "solar skin" on my ...
THIS is the moment I've been waiting for!
I've always wanted a "solar skin" on my car. Or even on my backpack, with a USB port inside for charging my devices.
Four decades ago the only available candidate was amorphous semiconductors that you can put on a flexible substrate: look up Sharp and Ovonics for those. The (big) problems:
1. the efficiency sucked;
2. the semiconductors degraded under solar UV exposure.
It was frustrating.
But no more!
https://www.solarpowerportal.co.uk/oxford-scientists-ultra-thin-solar-cell-27-energy-efficiency/
I've always wanted a "solar skin" on my car. Or even on my backpack, with a USB port inside for charging my devices.
Four decades ago the only available candidate was amorphous semiconductors that you can put on a flexible substrate: look up Sharp and Ovonics for those. The (big) problems:
1. the efficiency sucked;
2. the semiconductors degraded under solar UV exposure.
It was frustrating.
But no more!
https://www.solarpowerportal.co.uk/oxford-scientists-ultra-thin-solar-cell-27-energy-efficiency/