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- MJDub, on 11/07/2008, -0/+8Call me when it costs 20 bucks at my local store.
- Moonkeeper, on 11/07/2008, -0/+7I really wish all these new inventors would begin communicating with one another. Maybe after that hiring a company that specializes in miniaturizing technology. It will be a great day when a self-reliable power source is cheaper then going through the utility company.
- protodon, on 11/07/2008, -0/+4Yeah "invented" like 20 years ago.
- Leviathan433, on 11/07/2008, -0/+4I'd digg you if you were not consistently a douche.
- faithhealer, on 11/07/2008, -0/+3The amount of innovation in solar and alternative energy sources is amazing. I have no doubt that with a coherent national policy and more funding for the best innovators in the field, we can achieve energy independence in the US.
- equanimist, on 11/07/2008, -0/+3Capitalism incentivizes secrecy: to the extent that an individual or small group can keep a lock on a technology or process that individual or small group stands to make money. Creating and maintaining proprietary technology is equally valuable because it locks up a stranglehold on a particular segment of the market-place. So, while I agree with you wholeheartedly, I don't think we'll see too much collaboration that we so desperately need.
- wifirewire2, on 11/07/2008, -0/+2zee gogglez- zey do nothing!!
- DDION, on 11/07/2008, -1/+3I'm gonna hold out for spray on nuclear power - and the bonus genetic defects that ensue!
- Paradoxt, on 11/07/2008, -0/+2Kevin got it right again...
- as566, on 11/07/2008, -0/+1This is pretty crazy. Can you imagine spraying this onto you shirt, walking around in the sun, and charging your cellphone?
- Paulorific, on 11/07/2008, -0/+1I think he means the new advances in the technologies we read articles about.
- funk1999, on 11/07/2008, -1/+2Ahh, yes...it's close to 3pm EST....time for the daily miraculous breakthrough in solar technology (that will never make it to market).
- nick111, on 11/07/2008, -0/+1And every time there is a scientific advance there's umpteen comments from lard-arses such as yourself saying "whhhiiiiinneeee, waaaaaiii caaaan't aaaaiiii buuuuuyyyy oneeeee??????"
I think if you spent about (oh, I don't know, 30 seconds?) on google you'd find that solar-electric is already being deployed all over the place... but not (gasp) technologies that were only just trialled in a lab a couple of days ago. - TVarmy, on 11/07/2008, -0/+1So, I'm guessing that would be a bunch of tiny turbines so light that they'd be neutrally buoyant in air? I'm now guessing that they'd emit static electricity, since it'd be hard to get that many tiny, neutrally buoyant wires in the air. Sounds like fun, although they'd probably mess up your lungs something awful. Maybe that'd work at a high altitude (make them buoyant in very thin air), and they could shoot tall lightening towers.
Granted, I'm sure that would probably have more consequences than I can think of and be more expensive than I can imagine. - Dumbledorito, on 11/07/2008, -0/+1This is the umpteenth article about new ways to create solar cells or how there has been a breakthrough in efficiency. When are we going to see this technology deployed?
- NotYourProdigy, on 11/07/2008, -0/+1Make this consumer-friendly, and the citizens of the world will gladly put their usual 'iPod' funding toward something like this. Consumerism is the best funding for science. Just look at the advances in computers.
- TVarmy, on 11/07/2008, -0/+1I once heard that the market would benefit best if patents only lasted 14 years. It was a study done by some professor of economics. I'm wondering if this would better push investors to get these ideas to market to increase time they could take advantage of the exclusive rights to the idea. That would probably lead to more sacrifices, some pro-consumer/environment, some anti-consumer/environment. I could see unsafe products being pushed to market before they're properly tested, but I could also see rival research firms agreeing to work together to better implement a technology in consumer products before their patents lapse.
- robbob, on 11/07/2008, -0/+1Withing the article they link to another that is working on solar cells with TiO2.
This way we can power our home from the solar paint.
Powering your EV car this way would be life changing world-wide. - solarpowerboy, on 11/08/2008, -0/+0Yes I agree, consumerism is a great way to increase scientific development
- GordonFree, on 11/07/2008, -1/+1A douche? Me? Why? I have a lot of friends an fans who have my respect. I'm not generally known as an unpleasant person. On the contrary
- Paulorific, on 11/07/2008, -0/+0I'd spray this on my face.
- GordonFree, on 11/07/2008, -9/+8Spray-on wind turbines anyone?
- inactive, on 11/07/2008, -4/+1Come on people this myth's already been debunked. http://www.stumbleupon.com/toolbar/#topic=Humor&ur ...
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