This is just too awesome...

And then renaming himself Cole and fight on the streets using electricity as a superpower?

To the OP: amazing!

i actually don't think people are think on the proper scale with this...

The problem with Solar cells before is cost prohibitive and structure prohibitive.
Today there is a whole procedures of manufacturing and installing them. These anyone could theoretically plaster them on your house and hook them up like a standard generator. The cheapness of the production cost also allows the poorest people to afford it too in various amounts AND considering that you can fold it 1000 times and not get any lose in performance it presumes that these things are somewhat transluscent which means you can layer so someone could layer their roof with 1 layer and get that benefit OR 1000 and get that benefit.

Also the fact that they are so easy to apply and durable apparently they could be thrown around your yard and on things easily. Further more the lightness of this product also helps with electric cars that are weight prohibitive...

So you could presumably you could plaster this stuff all over every where from machines to building to clothes and combine that with wireless electricity technology and you could in theory create a whole new electrical infractructure network that is 100% clean.

Which interesting enough could be catastrophic... Temperature is affected by all the smog we produce in cooling way... and as such the rapid greening effect this could cause could be just as bad as not going green at all.

So now we have a balance to strike between going green and not... where as previously we just had to go 100% green or else!

what?

The cooling effect of smog does not outstrip the rise in global temperatures caused by carbon emissions.

Or, to put it another way: smog has a way of masking how much temperatures are rising. It's worse than we think. And a widespread ability to generate electric power without adding more carbon to the atmosphere would be a good thing.

I won't disagree about global temperature rise, but I do find it highly comical and extremely egotistical that some of our species thinks we are the cause.

And I think it's adorable that you dispute the overwhelming scientific consensus without any credentials or evidence to back it up. *shrug* That's neither here nor there.

overwhelming scientific consensus? not even close, and to top it off, all the data from the two major sources has been proven to be falsified or manipulated. it's a political talking point, and nothing else.

and, as to the whole OP story, that's great, would be really neat if we could print out our own solar panels, but we will need to make them efficient. damned things are a great idea, and tend to fall flat in reality.

And I think it's adorable that you think that, too. The 'proof' of which you speak is non-existent and independent reviews have stated that there is no substance to those claims of data manipulation.

Next?

While science is and should be debated, when the debate comes to "All that science stuff is bunk, because it was cold yesterday..."

That's not science, that's trying to ignore facts in favor of personal preference.

No. No, it won't get interesting. It will be the same old boring *** crap as always.

There are an untold nuber of places where one can go to discuss this topic. But there aren't as many places to go for CoX stuff.
So, anyone who wants to read the crap or spew it, has more options than those who want just CoX stuff.

check it out

http://www.google.com/search?sourcei...w=1211&bih=714

This part here sounds pretty cool. As an art director, I see huge potential for printed ads and collateral pieces. Business cards that could charge your cell phone. Ads that illuminated when you turn to their page in the magazine. Though, the amount of junk mail I receive would probably get worse...

The large scale applications of this could be game changing for us, I really hope this takes off.

Hell, just think of the changes to product packaging - your bag of chips now has lights and plays the Hallelujah Chorus when you open it.

And this could be huge in developing areas of the world. I read an article about a woman in sub-Saharan Africa who bought some solar panels and started charging her neighbors modest amounts to charge their cell phones, as she lived somewhere without power or phone lines. It completely changed her life and vaulted her into a middle-class lifestyle. Just using them to power lights is huge - you can work during the day and read/educate yourself at night. You could power a water pump with it.

If this lives up to its promises...

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The problem is that this kind of thing, where in two parties argue and then you guys go "it's a political thing so shut up" is that this is not a political thing. It's a scientific factual thing that ignorant people made political by twisting facts and presented it to the public to promote a "science is evil" agenda. One side thinks that unqualified known propagandists that aren't basing what they think on a proper understanding of what happened says is true and the other side understands what happened ignores those propagandists and follows the actual articles.

What do I mean?
Well for example global warming is indeed happening. Why is it happening? Several reasons most likely, but one of the reasons we believed was causing it turned out to show weird data that showed that one source wasn't a source of the warming. This is the data that is shown to be "faulty" and "covered up". Scientists thought one source was a cause and it wasn't. This was construed as showing that warming wasn't happening at all because that is what propagandists said it meant. Where in reality what the data shows is that x isn't the source. You could argue that x isn't the source could be inflated to "man" isn't the source, but that is an over generalization when we look at ALL the data, understand it, and don't read it biasly... and this is the scientific consensus.

Oh and by the way... the scientific consensus is not changed by someone that isn't well versed in that field and/or is considered a crackpot in general. There are scientists that don't accept evolution, einsteinian physics, black holes, quantum physics, history, and a whole lot of other things that ARE the scientific consensus and they tend to be poorly educated, have other motives, aren't commenting on their field, have religious or political agendas, or in some cases are just plain nuts.

Now on to the thing that I said about the smog reduction thing. The problem is not that we don't need to get rid of it, but that getting rid of it rapidly could cause a problem. The temperate was higher than usual due to low to no plane flights after 9/11 which confused scientists at first. What they found after investigating is that smog and other such "pollution" is helping to balance the equation to make it seem cooler by several degrees. Who knows what would happen if we suddenly stopped producing all that smog other than it would get real hot real fast until equilibrium was met again in some form it might be that we release a controlled amount of air pollution to repair the damage and not give ourselves heat stroke, or it might be the adoption of this technology is slower than other technology and it just naturally balances itself out.

On the issues of 1% efficiency when they talk about that they mean, if i remember right, 1% of the light energy that hits the cell is converted into electricity while the rest is either lost in conversion or isn't gathered. I think panels we're used to seeing are only like 7-9% efficient, but I'm not looking that up right now. Presumably if you cold layer this the 1% thing doesn't matter if it's light escaping... If that is that the rest of the 99% isn't lost in conversion... because you could just put 7-9 layers of this stuff on anywhere and get the same effect and it would still be lighter and cheaper...if I'm reading this right.

This was the first comment out of my dear Hubby's mouth when I mentioned this article.

Voltage is one thing, but it's the wattage that really counts.

While the product looks impressive and promising, they need to make it more efficient.

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