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Solar Ink -- Awesome New Technology

By Ben Mester

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Published: 19May2011
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Solar ink is an awesome need technology that opens up a brand new type of manufacturing process that requires less material and shoots out solar panels much faster than traditional methods. So what is solar ink then? Solar ink is actually just what it sounds like. It's solar material, meaning material that harnesses energy from the sun, that's been dissolved into a liquid state and can thereby be "printed" onto a surface. When I say printed, I literally mean printed. Sheets of flexible silicon are run through a device resembling a large printer which then prints the solar ink onto the plastic in predefined patters. These sheets are ultra thin and also flexible. This kind of technology has also been called flexible solar, thin film solar, and amorphous solar.

In order to make solar panels this way, multiple sheets are stacked on top of each other and adhered together, making a thicker, but still very thin solar panel. Some of these solar panels made with solar ink can actually be rolled up like a yoga mat and carried around for personal use. By personal use, I mean that they're carried around by persons who want to charge their personal electronic devices -- cell phones, computers, etc. With this amazing advancement in solar, personal flexible solar panels are soon to be on the rise. And because of the ease of manufacturing involved in making these kinds of solar panels, the time has never been better for solar panels to be mass produced for personal use.

Whenever a technology becomes both more useful and also cheaper, that's when you know you have a winner. With the invention of thin film flexible solar and solar ink, the time has never been better for mass producing solar panels for personal use. Solar panels created in this way are even ending up on backpacks for college students wanting to charge their devices while walking around campus. Though such a solar pad is probably not ultimately very efficient, I love the creativity gone into all the different places that these flexible solar panels are able to be used. Solar panels created using thin film technology are even being made like stickers, where a person can simply peel off the back and adhere it to any clean, flat surface they want. RV owners are especially excited about this advancement as they can simply stick a peel and stick solar panel onto the roof of their vehicle and drive down the road with no fear of it pulling loose. 2011 is going to see a lot of new applications for solar panels. It's going to be an exciting time to go green.

Flexible solar panels are an amazing invention. They're so diverse in what they can do. Any many of them are cheaper than you might expect. If you're interested in checking out more, here's some information on flexible solar panels.

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