Dye Solar Cell has Surprising Components

Cost-effective dye solar cells developed by OrionSolar have significant advantages over traditional solar cells. Here, Dr. Jonathan Goldstein, Chief Scientist and Founder of OrionSolar, is explaining the benefits of his innovation, as well as some surprising materials in his solar cell.

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[0urGaia]

$150 for 100 watts peak, now we're talking!

[RAndersom]

but what you didn't say is how short the useful life is

[skysk8ing]

are you producing this // selling, i want to buy where can i find U

[myconsumerclub]

100 watts over an hour is 1/10th of a Kwh I use 1500 Kwh per month so I would need 10 just to get 6 X 30 = 180 hours X 100 watts = 18,000 watts = 18 kWH I only need about a hundred times that to produce what I use.

6 hours per day peak production if there is that much sunlight

[astronomerin]

Awesome! Makes me want to know even more :)

[raphaelmakokha]

Hi, can you fabricate for me a 10 Wp dye sensitized module for my research work? Raphael

[TK42138]

We'll soon be at a stage when you can paint on your own solar pv panels. If you could harness the infra-red part of the spectrum then solar would be effective in countries that don't get much visible sunlight but still get loads of infrared. 

[1yoyo105]

Hitler thumbed this down.

[jeriellsworth]

How do they coat the conductive top layer without a vacuum?

[TheSolarmike]

I think a roll to roll high speed system could churn out the stuff for $ 0.10 per watt and we could furnish every man woman and child on earth with abundant Pv! Say goodbye to oil and coal and nuclear waste!

[marcheseDS]

He didn't said tha they are less temperature sensitive than silicon and less direct sunlight dependent also, at least those that I know.

[marcheseDS]

@RAndersom True, the live shorter than silicon ones but still the cost (in $ and energy for manufacture) is by far lower, and they can give more energy per day than a similar peak watts silicon panel (unless you use a sun follower in the desert of coarse). And they should be easy to recycle too.