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Solar Cloth Stretches Over the Horizon

Posted January 21, 2015 12:00 AM by Engineering360 eNewsletter

Thousands of parking lots, as well as many sports stadiums, across the UK may soon be topped with an innovative PV fabric. The lightweight, flexible material from Cambridge-based startup Solar Cloth Company is 100x thinner than silicon glass-backed solar panels. Using copper indium gallium diselenide (CIGS) also provides a wider solar spectrum absorption range than Si cells at 300-1300 nm, giving the cloth a longer daily interval for power production. Additional benefits of the CIGS solar cloth cited in The Engineer: greater durability and shorter payback time relative to Si.

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Re: Solar Cloth Stretches Over the Horizon

01/22/2015 4:34 PM

OK, make clothes out of the stuff to power embedded electronics...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-textiles
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