Solar Panels

From Gorilla Radio blog. I am very intrigued by the few things I've been able to find about this technique. Sounds fascinating and certainly an improvement of spending $30,000 to have your house roof redone.

Panel Breakthroughs Start Solar Power 'Revolution'
Solar energy 'revolution' brings green power closer
John Vidal, environment editor The Guardian,
Saturday December 29 2007
The holy grail of renewable energy came a step closer yesterday as thousands of mass-produced wafer-thin solar cells printed on aluminium film rolled off a production line in California, heralding what British scientists called "a revolution" in generating electricity.

The solar panels produced by a Silicon Valley start-up company, Nanosolar, are radically different from the kind that European consumers are increasingly buying to generate power from their own roofs. Printed like a newspaper directly on to aluminium foil, they are flexible, light and, if you believe the company, expected to make it as cheap to produce electricity from sunlight as from coal.