Dyes turn windows into powerful solar panels | Environment | guardian.co.uk
Greenpeace’s chief scientist, Doug Parr, said: “Innovations like this show renewable technologies can take a quantum leap forward if given proper financial support from governments. Rather than betting the farm on outdated nuclear technology and hoping that coal will one day be ‘clean’, Gordon Brown should be creating green jobs and pushing at the real technological frontier of the 21st century – renewables.”
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interesting, I’m a littel botherd by only 10% of the light going through the window though, won’t that make it awful dark in your average living room?
You will have to buy a wind-up torch.
Got one of those! http://tinyurl.com/6prvxp works out much cheaper than keeping buying batteries for Aprilia’s torch
Oh yeah, and thinking about it, you will need to bear in mind that while only 10% of light will come in, 100% will go out, so you will still need curtains.
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