Designing a kitchen of flexible solar panels

As we got used from Erenovable we bring you the latest designs in respect of the use of renewable energy-based devices. This opportunity is a development belonging to Yonggu OJ and eunha Seo, awarded a prize at the international design competition 2010 in Seoul. Many designers work in solar cookers devices something that seeks to solve the problem of many rural communities do not have electricity and other fuels (such as manure, wood or kerosene) to be generators of greenhouse gases.

The kitchen solar Hot Liner consists of a flexible solar panel that can adapt its shape to become a kitchen surface. While the design is very innovative, practical use presents several weaknesses, including the fact its high cost and their fragility. The next step in search of a viable product would ensure that these solar panels were resistant to the scratches to increase its durability.

Flexible with 95% efficiency solar map

In the field of renewable energy sources, the concept of energy efficiency is very used to develop new technologies, found in the genre of solar energy the use of new components, and up the application of nanotechnology, especially in those lower thickness panels that can have a myriad of applications.

On this occasion, the progress has been made with the creation of a Flexible Solar blade, a material that uses the concepts and conventional theories of photovoltaic solar panels , combined to various structures of size reduced, baptized as Nano-antennas.

This technology had previously been used in some industrial processes, allowing collect heat from different machines to be able to turn them into electrical impulses, and that they would be now applied en masse and for the production of energy electric.

Support for these "Nantennas" would be flexible, Moldable and application in an endless number of substrates, as it is a simile sheet of paper, obtained in addition a performance close to 95% energy efficiency more than favorable for the mass production of this technology.

For the time being, the Idaho National Laboratory is working on this prototype, and conducting various analyses in this regard.






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