Renewable energies seem to be beginning to look to the future and this week we learned that a group of scientists from Stanford University located in California, have developed some innovative flexible solar panels that can be easily attached to almost any object you can imagine.
For example, they could be ideal to carry stuck on our mobile device or on the windows of our house or even on our own clothes to get energy with every step we take.
The new panels designed in the Stanford University They have the great advantage that they are flexible, thin and, above all, cheap, unlike traditional solar panels, which are large, rigid, heavy and their price is usually not exactly very cheap.
Xiaolin Zheng and Chi Hwan Lee are the two visible heads of this project and that they are absolutely proud of what they have achieved and stand out about a novel invention that: "it can be detached from its respective protective plastic sheets and adhere, like plasters or stickers, to virtually any surface".
The team made up of the two visible heads and a large group of students has succeeded in gluing thin film solar cells to paper, plastic and glass, among other materials, in a way that is "not much more complicated than transferring a tattoo to the skin removable, "Zheng explained. And on top of that they can be detached again if desired. "We overcome the difficulties through a technological process of 'peel and stick' that gives thin film solar panels an unprecedented potential for flexibility and adhesion, apart from reducing their weight and cost," he adds.
More information - In 2013 all Spanish trains will use renewable energy
Source - renewable-energies.com
Very good especially to avoid paying so much in the electricity bill that the CFE DE MEXICORICARDO steals from us
Gonzalo: where can you ask for a price for these panels