New Photovoltaics Made with Titanium Foil

Memorize writes "A company called Daystartech has released a new type of photovoltaic cell which, unlike almost all the cells currently in use, does not silicon. This is based on a thin titanium film. Given the current shortage of solar-grade silicon, and all-time high oil prices, maybe titanium solar panels are here at the right time. The questions are, will they release it as a consumer solar product, and what will be the price per kilowatt hour?"

Comments

Proprietary?

[Dark Paladin]

This proprietary alternative energy solution is the first of many highly anticipated Photovoltaic Foil products expected from DayStar.

[sarcasm]Hah! As if I would ever use a proprietary product - I insist that all of my futuristic space planes use only Open Source designed components. Otherwise, we will replicate the HAL 9000 disaster of the past. If only HAL had been Open Source, we could have caught the bug that much sooner and patched him with the gnuThreeLaws API.[/sarcasm]