Worlds first 1 GW solar production tool

World's first 1GW solar production tool. Breakthrough in the production of solar electricity cells: Simply printed (using ink with semiconductor nanoparticles).

Printing is a non-vacuum coating process that eliminates the need for a high-vacuum chamber as it is conventionally used. Printing is 200 times more capital efficient: A twenty times slower high-vacuum tool costs ten times as much.

More info see Nanosolar blog at www.nanosolar.com...

I expect this technology will sweep across the thin film solar industry very quickly. 1.3 million bucks for a GW production tool that is not even running at it's full potential! Expect innovation in the Solar Industry to take off like a rocket.

For clarification, this tool produces 1 GW worth of solar panels per year.

[edit on 24-7-2008 by sardion2000]

Here are their products that are on the market right now. Hopefully they'll be available to the general public soon. The Word I've been hearing is next spring/summer.

Nanosolar Utility Panel™


Nanosolar SolarPly™


[edit on 24-7-2008 by sardion2000]

The company that you refer to sounds very very mainstream, and I don't like that. They lie, lie and then they increase the power of the banks. (see most other threads I guess)

This vid does not appear to be mainstream. HYDROGEN HOPES....



I like the old guy with the unpronuncible name. He's going like Tesla!

The technology has been around for 2-3 years and there are already thin film solar panels out that are substantially cheaper then conventional crystalline tech...

[edit on 25-7-2010 by hawkiye]