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Friday, April 20, 2007

Energy problem solved?

I was checking into the fluorescant, solar-power producing dyes that fudgeman posted a link to on his blog. They are very super cool. Basically they imitate chlorophyll, among other things. Less efficient than regular silicon-based solar panels, but are way cheaper, way more environmentally friendly and less energy-expensive to produce and can operate in relatively low light conditions. Also they plan to incorporate it into building materials, so all your windows can be solar panels.
So if we can all afford these things we can have cover our rooves in the stuff and mix it with our windows, and bam, energy problems of the world are solved. Should be able to store it for use in cars and trucks, someone will invent a car you can plug into the mains to recharge or something. Aircraft may have more problems, but if we don't use petrol for cars then there will be shiteloads of it for use in aircraft, should last a very long time, at least until we can build some kind of electric plane.
Hopefully that works out, might take a while to implement to a serious level though.

“The energy that reaches earth from sunlight in one hour is more than that used by all human activities in one year”
-some guy in some article.

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