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Roll-Up Solar Cells Printed Like Money
from National Geographic News
Printing presses normally used to make Australian dollar bills produced solar power cells in a trial near Melbourne last week. The giant machines arranged and stamped flexible solar panels onto plastic film.
The cells were only 3 percent efficient, meaning they could convert only a small amount of solar energy into electricity.
But Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) project leader Gerry Wilson told Australian ABC News he expects the output to more than double by next year and top 10 percent after that. He said he hoped the solar cells would be ready for mass production in five years.
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