Posted on 08/03/2011 12:16:01 AM PDT by neverdem
The PDF is open access, i.e. a FReebie.
What, innovation taking place in America?
How long till the Chinese buy or seize the patent?
Looks a good argument for “Tinted” glass, the efficiency is higher.
*ping* to “free” energy.
What buy?
We don’t need no stinkin buy!
We make batteries a lot.
No buy.
Fascinating.
Forget about that. Big brother wants us to use windmills and pedal cars.
What happens when the battery wears out and each window costs $100,000?
UNH researchers help find natural products potential of frankia
Why Diets Don't Work: Starved Brain Cells Eat Themselves, Study Finds
Today's playgrounds may be too safe, critics warn Fort Tryon Park was one of my hangouts for decades from the playground to the Cloiters.
FReepmail me if you want on or off my health and science ping list.
You use your ‘Carbon Credits” to buy another?
Oh, that probably only applies to big office buildings, so sorry, maybe you can put a claim on your homeowners policy? :-(
UNH researchers help find natural products potential of frankia
Why Diets Don't Work: Starved Brain Cells Eat Themselves, Study Finds
Today's playgrounds may be too safe, critics warn Fort Tryon Park was one of my hangouts for decades from the playground to the Cloiters.
FReepmail me if you want on or off my health and science ping list.
Or a rocks hits your window.
Some science is done to learn about the physics or chemistry. This sounds an appeal to the green Marxists currently overseeing the NSF budget to help soak what remains of the private sector and hurry us only on the road to economic disaster and socialist dictatorship. To charge emergency batteries or low power LEDs is a business decision. To really invest in energy why not bribe all the environmental lawyers so that they will have no incentive to obstruct real energy production. Pay them each a million dollars a year to shut up and move to Aspen. Then the talent of our nation can return to what we have taught France, China, Japan, and India to do. Those nations, of course, now own much of our intellectual property in patents and manufacturing expertise, but with a free society we have “The Ultimate Resource” (the name of a study much maligned by Marxists Obama and Ehrlich, written by economist Julian Simon), great minds, whether born here or from China, India or Russia, the ones who chose to become citizens will produce for their chosen nation, unlike Obama, whose goal appears to be to destroy us, and who has never produced anything in his life but a confidence man's hustle.
Just remember not to use Windex on them!
Even so, it’s still an infant technology.
The biggest step in any new technology has always been the innovations that follow its discovery. After that, things can be improved upon.
For example, the Toyota hybrid technology. When it first came out, Popular Mechanics at the time said that it wasn’t worth buying because it would take 150 000 miles before the savings would pay for the technology. With the price of the technology having probably decreased, because the cost of technology is always decreasing, the improved performance, and the strong increase of the price of gasoline, I’d be willing to bet that it’s nowhere near the 150k miles before the technology has paid for itself now.
Even if the technology won’t be ready for another twenty years, it’s nice to know that they are working on it.
Or spill your juice or coffee onto it, like I’ve done to my keyboard from time to time.
Yeah. This is neat, geeky stuff. But somebody really serious about solar power in a building is still likely to want to put conventional high efficiency cells on the roof and have them move to track the sun, not goof around with windows.
Gotta be a real klutz to do that to a window!
The window probably would be laminated inside a layer that is safe to clean conventionally.
It’s easy when you have a cat.
I would like to see this come to fruition. According to the designer, if it replaced the current roadways in the US, it would provide three times the electrical energy needed by the country.
It might be pie in the sky, but with that type of surplus, an electric bill might be a thing of the past, and with the advent of electric cars, fuel cost as well. Citizen consumer wins.
http://solarroadways.com/intro.shtml
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