http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/16/mit-researchers-develop-window-tint-solar-concentrators/ Engadget Comments for MIT researchers develop window-tint solar concentrators http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/16/mit-researchers-develop-window-tint-solar-concentrators/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/16/mit-researchers-develop-window-tint-solar-concentrators/Jul 16th 2008 8:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/16/mit-researchers-develop-window-tint-solar-concentrators/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/16/mit-researchers-develop-window-tint-solar-concentrators/
I think cars use roughly 5kw, which is something like 10 square metres-worth of _strong_ sunlight. And that's 100% efficiency.

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B, A, 1, 2, Left, Right, Left, Right, B, A, Up, Down, 1, 2]]>Jul 17th 2008 11:44AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/16/mit-researchers-develop-window-tint-solar-concentrators/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/16/mit-researchers-develop-window-tint-solar-concentrators/]]>Jul 16th 2008 9:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/16/mit-researchers-develop-window-tint-solar-concentrators/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/16/mit-researchers-develop-window-tint-solar-concentrators/
3 years is a generous amount of time....I expect that you could be preordering these in 2 years EASY]]>Jul 16th 2008 9:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/16/mit-researchers-develop-window-tint-solar-concentrators/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/16/mit-researchers-develop-window-tint-solar-concentrators/Jul 16th 2008 9:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/16/mit-researchers-develop-window-tint-solar-concentrators/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/16/mit-researchers-develop-window-tint-solar-concentrators/Jul 16th 2008 11:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/16/mit-researchers-develop-window-tint-solar-concentrators/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/16/mit-researchers-develop-window-tint-solar-concentrators/Jul 16th 2008 9:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/16/mit-researchers-develop-window-tint-solar-concentrators/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/16/mit-researchers-develop-window-tint-solar-concentrators/
(I know. I'm simplifying. But it's still a bit ironic.)]]>Jul 16th 2008 9:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/16/mit-researchers-develop-window-tint-solar-concentrators/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/16/mit-researchers-develop-window-tint-solar-concentrators/Jul 16th 2008 9:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/16/mit-researchers-develop-window-tint-solar-concentrators/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/16/mit-researchers-develop-window-tint-solar-concentrators/Jul 16th 2008 9:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/16/mit-researchers-develop-window-tint-solar-concentrators/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/16/mit-researchers-develop-window-tint-solar-concentrators/Jul 16th 2008 9:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/16/mit-researchers-develop-window-tint-solar-concentrators/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/16/mit-researchers-develop-window-tint-solar-concentrators/
Are they just saying that you get 40x the output per cell by virtue of the fact that the window acts as a larger collector than the cell would alone?]]>Jul 16th 2008 12:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/16/mit-researchers-develop-window-tint-solar-concentrators/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/16/mit-researchers-develop-window-tint-solar-concentrators/Jul 18th 2008 9:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/16/mit-researchers-develop-window-tint-solar-concentrators/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/16/mit-researchers-develop-window-tint-solar-concentrators/with an increase in conversion efficiency. Not to mention that the
ability to isolate particular wavelengths will reduce wastage as
heat, effectivelt another form of efficiency increase.]]>Jul 18th 2008 9:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/16/mit-researchers-develop-window-tint-solar-concentrators/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/16/mit-researchers-develop-window-tint-solar-concentrators/
But having read alot about this(since what he's doing is 100x cooler than what I'm doing), I can tell you that the breakthrough is really one of capital costs. The idea is, you'll be able to build a giant solar panel that is almost entirely plastic(which is cheap), and then line it with a thin bead of solar cells(which are expensive). This cuts installations costs dramatically so that we can actually start putting solar panels on our roofs without taking out a second mortgage.]]>Jul 16th 2008 12:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/16/mit-researchers-develop-window-tint-solar-concentrators/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/16/mit-researchers-develop-window-tint-solar-concentrators/Jul 16th 2008 1:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/16/mit-researchers-develop-window-tint-solar-concentrators/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/16/mit-researchers-develop-window-tint-solar-concentrators/Jul 16th 2008 2:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/16/mit-researchers-develop-window-tint-solar-concentrators/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/16/mit-researchers-develop-window-tint-solar-concentrators/Jul 16th 2008 4:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/16/mit-researchers-develop-window-tint-solar-concentrators/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/16/mit-researchers-develop-window-tint-solar-concentrators/Jul 16th 2008 3:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/16/mit-researchers-develop-window-tint-solar-concentrators/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/16/mit-researchers-develop-window-tint-solar-concentrators/Jul 16th 2008 5:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/16/mit-researchers-develop-window-tint-solar-concentrators/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/16/mit-researchers-develop-window-tint-solar-concentrators/
http://www.totalsolarenergy.co.uk]]>Jul 18th 2008 12:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/07/16/mit-researchers-develop-window-tint-solar-concentrators/http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/16/mit-researchers-develop-window-tint-solar-concentrators/Jul 18th 2008 1:49PM