http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/03/080306223745.htm
[i]”One of our Engineering Doctorate students was researching how sunlight interacts with paint and degrades it, which led to us developing a new photovoltaic method of capturing solar energy.?
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He said: ?Corus Colours produces around 100 million square metres of steel building cladding a year. If this was treated with the photovoltaic material, and assuming a conservative 5% energy conversion rate, then we could be looking at generating 4,500 gigawatts of electricity through the solar cells annually. That?s the equivalent output of roughly 50 wind farms.?[/i]
Hmmm, I’m trying to picture how this would work. I understand, well… I can picture how the paint would produce energy from the radiation… But what would go from there… Could this be applied to any building that this special paint was used on when making the steel cladding..
By the way, what is steel cladding?
If this can work in britan, then it would be applicable to any northern city I would think. Nothern geographic area’s are kind of limited in their alternate energy choices. I know. Hydroelectric, wind farms, energy from landfill gas(god, we have alot of those here), wave farms maybe in certain locations. But, this has some promise for everyone.
Dan
