What has happened is that a company based in California has been working with plastic balloons to convert the sun’s rays into usable energy. This company is Cool Earth Solar. They have been using the plastic used in Mylar balloons as well as in the wraps of Pop Tarts.

Of course, they have not been blowing up the balloons to for solar power. They stitched all of them together and put on some aluminum. That has been the main ingredient so as to be able to bring in power.

This project is still a prototype though. But if this goes through, this will surely be something grand. It is going to be quite flexible and not just like the flat solar panels that we are used to seeing.

Source: KFOX14.com

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Plastic Balloons To Solar?

But anyway, with regards to plastic solar cells, a company, Solarmer Energy Inc., is on the hunt towards creating these plastic solar cells. They deem that such products can be used with gadgets like mobile phones and iPods and MP3s and other things so much so that these gadgets need not be charged to an electric socket.

Dina Lozofsky is the VP for development and alliance at the company and she said, “New materials with higher efficiencies are really the key in our industry. Plastic solar cells are behind traditional solar-cell technology in terms of the efficiency that it can produce right now.”

But I certainly do see a bright future for plastic solar cells. Oh how the industry will go for products that use them.

Source: Science Daily

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Solar Cells In Plastic