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Cheap Spray-on Plastic Solar Cells Coming

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the now-isn't-that-special dept.

coyote1 writes "The Sacramento Bee reports about custom-tailored molecules and spray-on plastic could someday create the next generation of solar cells -- more flexible, more efficient and much less expensive than existing sources of solar power. Nanotechnology is used to organize the molecules that are sprayed onto a surface."

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  1. Personal Applications... by geogeek6_7 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Now I can spray this stuff all over my body and never have to replace the batteries in my mp3 player ever again! Also, it could bring a whole new light (so to speak) to sunbathing... Imagine all the pasty white geeks hittin' the beaches once they commericalize this stuff...

    1. Re:Personal Applications... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      So do Snickers and pizza.

  2. Spray on plastic? by Loki_1929 · · Score: 3, Funny

    I guess this means people who "tag" buildings with this stuff can send out electric bills to the people who's buildings they tag?

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  3. story link lame humour by Graspee_Leemoor · · Score: 3, Funny

    Just spray it on your bare computer components and you have an ass-ugly computer with no case AND no power cord!

    HEHEHEH sorry but the link just had to be made.

    graspee

  4. Re:Partly Organic? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny
    So... if the plastic is carbon (or hydrocarbon) based, it's organic. Note that this definition of organic has nothing to do with the one used to refer to naturally grown produce.


    Now could someone please explain what "free-range" plastic is?

  5. Kind of sounds like... by cscx · · Score: 2, Funny

    That spray-on hair replacement "substance" of infomercial fame, to cure male-pattern baldness.

  6. Re:Great news, but still a ways off... by Fesh · · Score: 3, Funny

    So do I... But since it's early in the morning, it triggered an odd mental image...

    The Mootrix. Think about it: why would a cow be any less good at generating electricity than a human being? And most of the cows out there are destined to be a steak anyway...

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    --Fesh
    Kill -9 'em all, let root@localhost sort 'em out.