Technology Catches Up...

A recent report in Reuters has stated that U.S. researchers have found a way to make efficient silicon-based solar cells that are flexible enough to be rolled around a pencil and transparent enough to be used to tint windows on buildings or cars.

John Rogers of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, who led the research said in the interview, "We can make it thin enough that we can put it on plastic to make a rollable system. You can make it gray in the form of a film that could be added to architectural glass... It opens up spaces on the fronts of buildings as opportunities for solar energy."

Which means Ladies and Gents that the entire surface area of skyskrapers, your car, your home and theoretically everything can become one giant solar cell!

Typically solar energy has been too expensive and bulky to been seen as a viable substitute for conventional methods but now due to this technological breakthrough plus the higher oil prices and a wider realisation that climate change is real it seems finally... and I do mean finally that solar energy shall soon be in high demand.

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