Record Efficiency for Plastic Solar Cells

This is lab bench project at this point.

Even at 5-6%, if this can be spooled out of a factory at a few bucks a square foot it can be a good thing.

Nick G
South Dartmouth MA

Hey, it is not politically correct to question greenies!  Cut it out.

The real cost of the power is not relevant.  There is special "Greenie Math" you must learn.  In "Greenie Math" never worry about real cost.  You must support insane funding of greenie scams, and government subsidies fall from the sky (from the Tooth Fairy) without impacting anything else in society (such as medical care and money to send kids to college).

So what if your solar electricity costs 50 cents a KWH, suck it up, laws must force you to buy it. Turn off your air conditioner and lights and send your kids off to the recycling center at age 18, there are no other industrial jobs with power at half a buck.

Heh, you could probably get a small amount of power from full moonlight with a good concentrator PV design. Anyone tried that before?

Well lets hope Konarka has finally got something together. No one has made any solar panels that are cost effective yet. That is where I hope these are different. I think the ol boy who designed these has a good idea, however now that he has partnered with Konarka the likelihood of it getting to the consumer in the next decade is slim. I have reached the point where I too have little faith in Konarka. They do everything they can do to avoid contact with anyone, so if you don't have a few million to give to them their web site really means don't call us we'll call you! I like how they say it though, "please fill out our on-line “contact us” form so that we can learn more about you. If there is a fit with Konarka’s needs, we will be in touch." HA HA HA HA, boy that’s rich, there is nothing like a lawyer and an accountant writing the contact information. Sheesh.

It has been two years now and they are still dragging their feet. I guess their two million hasn't run out yet. Oh yea, check out their web site contact information. The only one that send you to a form is if you want to send them money the rest run you around in circles or give you the don’t call us we’ll call you message. They have had plenty of time to get a product to market and I wonder if it is as great as they say it is big business is likeky going to do everything they can to stop production of the product because they would loose money if the normal Joe had the ability to generate cheap electricity he wouldn’t need to buy near as much power from the grid and many would be selling their excess back to the power companies. At 20 dollars for a 50 watt panel or even better print your own on your ink jet printer for 10 cents a watt the whole economy would be effected. Why we would have electric cars anywhere there was sun.

Imagine the reality of this product, why I could afford to power my 2000 sq ft house with solar panels and a battery system for under 1500 dollars. It would pay for it’s self in less than a year. Nope, I seriously doubt it is going to happen any time soon. Even if it does work there is no way big business will ever let Joe average get his hands on anything like that in this millennium there is just to much at risk in big business’s pocketbook!

It nice to dream though.
badmoon