New Solar Energy Conversion Process Could Revamp Solar Power Production

Hey, you're right. Iron Man all the way. Whew, I'm really slipping this week. So, we all can't BE Iron Men but WE can all drive his car! Imagine that, an iron car that barely weighs 1600 pounds.

All we need now is Robert Downey Jr. to be the voice for the onboard GPS and we're set, preferably with some Tony Snark attitude.

Robert Downey would lower hisself that much? he$he$he$he$

Hybrid batteries charging while stuck in traffic?

A self-charging Chevy Volt might be worth $41,000. Just need to find somebody with $41,000 and a job is all.

Put one on the roof of an electric car, extend your range without having to stop for a charge.

Remember the movie Tucker, a man and his car? It had a center headlight that would turn in the direction of the curves. This one could turn in the direction of the Sun. Of course if you're Rich & Famous you can have a stretch limo with 16.

Put bigger solar magnifier thingys on top of old used school buses and bring back HIPPIES.

What if it had been bigger? French fried Planet Dirt!

Perhaps if you REPENT? Change your Ways?

Well, last time I checked this is someones website that you use. So if the owners don't like what you say, they can remove it. Free speech really doesn't apply here.

Sometimes necessity calls for real FAST repentance, before the Staff finds ya.

I concur with your assessment but I fully expect the oil companies to fund then commandeer whatever new technologies comes along, so while it will be an improvement towards our stewardship of the Earth it will still leave us where we are => monthly bills and, somehow, an occasional price gouging.

I would much prefer each home having a Gravity Wheel turning an electrical generator over in the closet or down in the basement and get rid of power lines. Transmission lines are our Achille's heel to the increasing storms and masses of solar explosion radiation. A G.W. in the home would be shielded from all of those things.

That for me would be a full paradigm shift. Good post.

MIT has developed a way for cells to hold energy at night. Maybe they can get together with Stanford and combine these technologies to make the best of all worlds. But again, we read about these great strides taking place, yet they constantly get squashed by the status quo.

Or buy it and market it. At some point they will know they're done with oil and they will move on to other energy sources. After all, they are energy companies. But yeah, they might try and kill it for a bit, while oil is still at its peak. It would be nice if some people had the decency not to sell these types of innovations to big energy companies.

they will find a way to clone or conserve, buy adding water or some chemical that causes brain damage...

I am frustrated about this as well. I read so much about so many innovations in the solar field and how it will make the price come down. And yet, they are not on the market... and we NEED them to be on the market and be affordable now.

they can be manufactured, but the oil companies stand in the way

instructables... get some DIY energy

"NEED them to be on the market and be affordable now."

That's easier said than done. Most of the time when we hear about advances in photovoltaics they are years away from being put out on to the market, and even further away from being cheap. For various reasons of course, including not enough funding and research, but that's how it is at the moment.

That's why we need these socalled "billionaires" who claimed they were going to give half their money to charity to put their money where their mouths are then and buy this technology and start selling it at an affordable price here. It isn't as though they need to make a profit from it since they were willing to give up the money in the first place, and it will be good for the environment. I won't hold my breath waiting for something like that to happen however. I would do it if I were rich. Every poor person in a developing country would have access to this technology as well as elsewhere. Screw the governments and their oil company parasites!

But the oil an gas folks are not wanting to let go. They have all the money and all the lobbiest working for them. We need to break that cycle first then they can produce the panels an market them at a price we can afford.

Bailey Quick! Move Fast buy up all the cesium stocks ya can! hahaha Quick man, build these collectors on the small ferris wheel 15 of em spaced around the wheel => then spin it 4 revolutions a second for House Current Output 60 Hz.

Hop to, chop suey! 4 x 15=60 revs a second house current!

Peak Oil Begone => Swoosh! it's Fell Swoop Time!

Power for the new Chevy Volt just came online!

And don't forget to put big magnifying glasses in the path of the new-design solar collector system. Spin the collectors through the path under the magnifying glass Bailey, In Like Flint man you're home free now! All the power your House needs PLUS that new Electric Car you're gonna buy soon.

Thats a plan that just might work.

I'm thinking about going low voltage 36 volts D.C. then bump it up to 120 volts like some of the Boats I've worked on have had.

I've always read the deep cycle marine batteries last much longer. Apartment renters like me can't have a bunch of batteries like that. I look forward to reading more about this system. My 3rd floor balcony gets plenty of sunlight from the south facing. The two large bedroom windows would be ideal once someone comes up with a system to fit inside the window frame I'd be In Like Flint then.

Cut the Main switch [turns off the power company feed] and then plug the feed from the batteries into a wall outlet you see. That would share power in the box with every other outlet.... electrifying all appliances. Yep, I could have three big sunny areas going into my OWN POWER GRID.

AAh man all ya need is six big D-cell batteries. I've worked on some boats that had all the same things most houses have well every thing but a bath room that was big enough to shower in. i always hated the salt water bath that comes with a shrimp boat.

I took courses in Electronic Circuit Board Theory at ECPI and you're talking basics about home electricity I didn't really get into. I do know that AC current is hard on motors (washing machines, dryers) so switching to DC appliances they would last longer, especially DC light bulbs. If there's going to be 12 billion people we need to get this mess straight. => Edison was Right. We should've had AC to the house then converted it to DC inside the house.

Naa man I will be converting to 120 volts for all appliances. trying to find low voltage appliances is a pain in the ass plus they cost twice as much

Perhaps some repentance & things would go better [for your appliances].