Next time an apprentice builder gets sent to buy some left-handed screwdrivers, stripy paint or a long weight from a hardware store they may one day have another unusual item on their list.
This is because a group of researchers are attempting to do away with bulky photovoltaic solar panels by developing solar cells that can be painted directly onto the outside of a house.
The team at the University of Notre Dame has, it says, succeeded in making prototype versions of ‘solar paint’ in an attempt to move beyond conventional silicon based solar methods.
This involves using quantum dot nanoparticles, consisting of titanium dioxide and cadmium sulfide or selenide, mixed with a water and alcohol concoction. While it might not sound very appetising as far as Christmas cocktails go, the resultant semiconducting paste can be cheaply and effectively slapped on the front of a house.
The researchers believe that the paint can be produced inexpensively and in large quantities, but it does seem that they are a while away from making it a commercially viable product. Conversion efficiency rates are at a measly one percent, a long way off the efficiency rates over 10 percent that are seen in conventional panels.
Of course, small efficiency cells can still have applications, with developments in cheaper thin film solar cells potentially offering larger areas of coverage to gain sunlight in countries with less space restrictions, for example. The team is now working to push the efficiency levels of the compound higher.
Perhaps the team should spend a little more time on the name of the ingenious new paint, which has so far been left with the truly atrocious ‘Sun-Believable’.
The way the market for solar panels in the UK is going at the moment such wacky ideas as solar paint couldn't hurt.
Following cuts to solar Feed-In-Tariffs MPs have voiced their anger at bungling ministerial handling of the subsidy programme.
A joint committee of MPs slammed the cutting of subsidies which have left the industry in the UK in disarray. Tim Yeo, chairman of the Energy and Climate Change Committee, claimed on BBC Radio 4 that while he agreed with the need to cut subsidies the government ‘botched’ a consultation into solar reform.
“The root of the problem was the failure to notice that the subsidies for solar panels were so generous that far too many people were taking advantage of them, and that should have been spotted last summer,” Yeo said.
“They were set a very high level it is not a bad idea to get an industry going but clearly you cant sustain that indefinitely. They botched the consultation process for the proposed cut by making the cut effectiveon a date before the end of the consultation”
When the cuts were announced they were slammed by industry experts, with Ash Sharma at IMS Research condemning the “kneejerk” reaction which could bankrupt businesses which invested in the UK solar industry.
As such, people ought to realise quickly that any “democratised” government has only one ambition and that is to create a system which is immutable through the institution of warfare between public and private employment - a case of starting a distracting crime scene whenever and wherever the truth/reality of the matter threatens the status quo of the real criminals. And so onto “Solar Subsidies”.
This dark art of Feminism, The Fathering Mothers oka the Machos who lack a real Schtick, with the support of The Mothering Fathers, oka those who do cannot justify their stick, realised through the Fame, Fortune & Immortality of Control Freakism, liberates all manner of abandonments of taxation. The more macho the feminists, the more they decry the lack of viciousness of the control, such is height of their alterego, Abandonment. The “declining state of business” the Fatherings scream. “Job security” the Motherings moan. “My Taxes/Revenue” the CF-cum-ANs pine. Why don’t the lunatics-cum-idiotics just give their “business” bumpals the dosh directly? Because then, the comforted will be able to see the reality in full glory, the greatest fear of the Demonkrazies. At least the Kommies do not hide such niceties.
Truth might be for all but not all are for Truth. In reality, only a very small percentage like, say 10%, will ever make it to Truth after The End. No matter how lovely or cute the Lost Causes are, underneath the skin and flesh, you won’t be able to make out the difference through the skeletal, which is why beauty is truly skin deep. A Simplicity which Eludes. Those who will matter ought to realise quickly that come the moment Truth arrives as The Other and not as The Self, the state of one’s Immune System is all that matters. Immune to the myths of Evil, Achievement, Success and so forth, oka Others, if only because when there is no one else around, what is Achievement and Success? Reality is therefore self which leads to The Self, the state where Others’ Purity resides - when there is no Other.
When there is no indifference, expectation or demand, then one’s Immune System will be ready for the moment ahead, one’s immunity to nonsense and frivolity being the crux of the matter which is why everything destructive we see surrounding us is about taking us to the level of sheer abandonment, all principles being of dichotomies within Humanity because Singularity oka Permanency, is not a function of Humanity, it is a function of Truth/Divinity [and not of Religiosity, the duty of Truth being to remove all religiosities], Humanity being of Duality oka Transience/The Temporal. That of having to repeat, even one’s attempt at destroying self and then others. Solar subsidies? Which Abandoned Nutter came out with that one, eh? For certainty it will not be the from the singulars, oka The Fathering Fathers or the Mothering Mothers, Another Simplicity which Eludes, especially the privileged, the special and the entitled, oka The Real Nutters, because they were the Real Freaks.