Nanosolar Powersheets – reliable solar power
Wouldn’t you love cheap solar energy wherever you are and incredibly flexible ? Well, this could be made possible with the Nanosolar Powersheet. The greatest fact at this technology is that you can put the sheets on your roof, windows and anywhere you want and generate cheap solar energy for all your needs.
Until now, the silicon and glass panels were generating energy at $3 per watt, which is very high, but the Nanosolar Powersheets could generate the energy at a rate of 10 times less, at 30 cents a watt, but that’s not sure. If they only manage to get the energy with $1 per watt, they can compete with coal and the solar energy could finally become profitable to use.
The Nanosolar Powersheets are revolutionary, due to their low cost energy generation and high functionality, so we shall soon find them in stores. It’s expected especially companies to use them, due to tax breaks and rebates, along with running cost reuduction.
What makes it also cheap are the materials used in it’s productions, being made of an Aluminum foil for stability, Molybdenum electrode, an ink made of indium, copper, selenium and gallium, a semiconductor that doesn’t absorb light and a clear Zinc oxide semiconductor.
A solar panel manufacting factory has been built in San Jose, being the biggest in the world and it may produce solar cells to generate more power than all the US, meaning 430 megawatts.
Whoa. That’s invention of the year! (so far)
$.30 per watt? Do you mean $.30 per watt-hour? You can’t really pay an amount of money for something that isn’t measured over a period of time.
No, they mean watt. It is a measure of the peak power of the solar cells, not of the energy output. Here is a back of the envelope calc for energy cost if you buy 10Kw of panels.
The warranty on these panels is 25 years, according to Nanosolar, and I’m guessing on installation
(10000W*.30$/W)=3000$+10000$(installation)=13000$
10kW*8h/day*365day/year*25year=73000kWh
13000$/73000kWh=.00548$/kWh~.6 cents/(kilowatt*hour)
I made an error, that should say 730,000, not 73,000. Also, that averages at about 30,000kWh, per year, which is at least 5 times what an average house would use (I think). I really just pulled the installation cost out of my ass, since I have no idea how much it would cost. This stuff will no doubt be much cheaper to install than fragile glass or silicon panels though.