The cheapest solar panel to challenge fossil fuels

Twin Creeks,ture a solar energy company that has been released recently, has developed a way to create solar cells that are half the price of cheaper cells manufactured today, and therefore available to challenge the hegemony of fossil fuels.search for knowledge The best of these novel photovoltaic cells "Twin Creeks" is created with a particle accelerator of hydrogen ions.

At present, almost all solar panels are made by cutting a slice with a thickness of 200 microns (0.2 mm) of a block of crystalline silicon. Then add a few electrodes, covered with a protective glass, and left in a sunny area to generate electricity through the photovoltaic effect (when photons laughter and joy strike the silicon excite electrons and generate a charge). There are two problems with this approach: as with the sawdust produced when wood is cut, is lost almost half of the silicon block when cut into slices of 200 micrometers, and secondly, the panels continue to function equally well if they were thinner than 200 micrometers, but silicon is brittle and prone to fracturse if too thin.

This is where the ion cannon ion Twin Creeks, dubbed Hyperion, more liberty comes into play. If you look at the picture above,shall a light the slices of 3 mm thick silicon are placed around the outer edge of the big wheel with spokes. A particle accelerator such slices bombarded with ions of hydrogen, and with exacting control of the voltage of the voltage of the accelerator, the hydrogen ions accumulate precisely to 20 micrometers from the surface of each slice. A robotic arm then transports the slices to a furnace where the ions are expanded into hydrogen gas, bigger houses which causes the 20-micron layer thickness is cut up. A metallic reinforcement that is applied for less fragile (and highly flexible, as shown on the right), and the remaining silicon slice is taken back to the particle accelerator for another dose of ions. In one-tenth the thickness and with a considerable waste much less, is easy to see how Twin Creeksthe beautiful can halve the cost of solar cells.

According to Technology Review, has been considered before ion waves,love and truth but particle accelerators were simply too expensive to be commercially viable. This is the other side of Twin Creeks innovation: they had to make your own particle accelerator that is "10 times more powerful" (100mA to 1 MeV) than any other in the market today.

Finally, after all, if you buy the team Twin Creeks, promises a cost of about 40 cents per watt, about half the cost of the panels currently coming out of China (where the vast majority of panels Solar are made). At that price, solar energy begins to intrude, especially in the energy derived from the network of oil - but, of course, we still need to create batteries that can store solar energy during the night. Stanford may have the answer to this problem, though, having its own Nanobattery endless - and then there is the lithium ion batteries stimulated with graphene, and perhaps more realistic, electric cars like the Nissan Leaf model that can double the praised battery power a house.