A new generation of solar panels should arrive and allow the development of photovoltaics on a very large scale.
It will be possible to stick an "organic" material on any object that will act as a solar energy collector.
"Solar paints" could therefore see the light of day.
Too heavy, rigid, need a support, expensive to install and maintain: solar panels can have several disadvantages.
But don't worry, because a new generation is coming: so-called "organic" solar panels.
It will be possible to stick them to a kind of wallpaper or to mix them with a paste to apply them on a wall or an object such as paint.
This paint would then act as a solar energy and humidity sensor and transform this humidity into hydrogen, capable of powering fuel cells.
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These "solar panels" will therefore be more versatile, more accessible and above all much less expensive.
For several years, researchers based in laboratories around the world have been working on this system ... and it is already working!
However, so far, the yields have been very poor and the process is two to three times less efficient than traditional photovoltaic panels.
This "solar painting" has therefore never been commercially profitable.
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However, a team of researchers from Kist, the Korean institute of science and technology, has just found a method to dry the famous solar paint while losing a minimum of yield.
A major advance in the sector, because it could finally launch their marketing and the development of photovoltaics would then be extremely simplified.