Plastic Solar Cells Built Into Windows

How’s this for innovative yet perhaps overdue? Solar company Konarka has created a solar cell to be built into energy-generating windows in the future. Not only will it be fitted into windows, but also other building materials. With this invention, we’ll no longer be confined to overhead solar panel applications.

Two major components that will need to be worked out are efficiency at converting sunlight into electricity and the potential life of the solar cell. So far, the solar cell has reached 6 percent efficiency and the silicon solar cell version is at over 20 percent.

Before you know it, we’ll be charging our cell phones and laptops through electricity generated through our bedroom windows. How nifty is that! Head on over to the Green Tech section of CNET for more details.

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I agree !