Power Glass
XsunX has developed very thin translucent coatings and films that create large area monolithic solar cell structures. This semi-transparency makes their so-called Power Glass glazing desirable for placing over glass, plastics, and other see-through structures. Using patented processes, such as reel-to-reel manufacturing techniques and multi-terminal cell structure designs, XsunX is working to commercialize large area cell manufacturing processes for thin film flexible plastics.
XsunX claims that Power Glass may provide as much as a 100% efficiency-to-cost gain over conventional opaque solar cells. This 100% gain in efficiency-to-cost is based on estimates of Power Glass solar cells operating at as much as 50% the efficiency of conventional opaque amorphous solar cells yet costing as little as 25% to produce. [via the XsunX website; suggested by Clayton Whitman, Seattle.]
2 Comments:
I can hardly wait for this product to come on the market! I want to build an earth-sheltered home with windows all across the southern side. This would be a perfect application!
Becky, have you looked into a thing called an Earthship? It's basically what you are talking about, and it's completely off the grid generating it's own electricity and has its own waste processing on-site. It's even constructed mostly out of recycled materials. They have two videos on YouTube that explain the whole process.
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