{"id":714687,"date":"2010-04-12T18:13:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-12T22:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/green.yahoo.com\/blog\/ecogeek\/1345\/is-cheap-solar-paint-coming-soon.html"},"modified":"2010-04-12T18:13:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-12T22:13:00","slug":"is-cheap-solar-paint-coming-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/714687","title":{"rendered":"Is cheap solar paint coming soon?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"solar-paint-lab\" height=\"183\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/l.yimg.com\/a\/feeds\/us\/grn\/green_ecogeek\/solar-paint-lab.jpg?resize=468%2C183\" width=\"468\" \/><\/p>\n<p>NextGen Solar has announced that it has raised half of the $1 million it needs to bring its &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/ecogeek.org\/solar-power\/2282\">solar paint<\/a>&#8221; to customers.\u00a0 The company claims its paint-on solar cells can hit 40 percent efficiency and will cost only a third of traditional solar PV panels.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagobusiness.com\/cgi-bin\/article.pl?articleId=33219\">NextGen<\/a> solar paint is a liquid material that forms webs of nanoscale solar cells when it dries and it can be painted onto practically any surface.\u00a0 Developed by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.anl.gov\/\">Argonne National Laboratory<\/a>, the solar paint beats out thin-film PV cells in efficiency because it captures more wavelengths of light.<\/p>\n<p>The company is working with ambitious clean tech investors, hoping to get the prototype out of the lab and onto roofs, windows and walls soon.\u00a0 A commercial breakthrough of this type of clean energy technology &#8211; one that is cheap and efficient enough to go up against coal &#8211; could make a big impact.<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/cleantechnica.com\/2010\/04\/10\/cheap-solar-paint-takes-a-giant-step-closer-to-reality\/\">Cleantechnica<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"1\" src=\"http:\/\/l.yimg.com\/a\/feeds\/us\/grn\/green_ecogeek\/pk2gaeukqrk\" width=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NextGen Solar has announced that it has raised half of the $1 million it needs to bring its &#8220;solar paint&#8221; to customers.\u00a0 The company claims its paint-on solar cells can hit 40 percent efficiency and will cost only a third of traditional solar PV panels. The NextGen solar paint is a liquid material that forms [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2496,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-714687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2ZVd","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2496"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=714687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/714687\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=714687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=714687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=714687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}