PowerCloth 1G By Exotic Solar LLC Turns Your Cloth Into Charging Port
Researchers from Exotic Solar LLC, a renewable energy startup company based in Salt Lake City, have developed a method to manufacture cheap and pliant solar panels that are easy-to-use power sources. Their patent pending technique is titled 'PowerCloth 1G' and unlike regular solar panels, has a splinterless and flexible nature.
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Solar power brings a lot of advantages as an energy source, and is considered as a greener alternative of producing electricity. The photo-voltaic cells help in converting the solar energy into electricity, which is then used in an office or home. Solar Panels are set up on the roof of the building in order to gain an optimum amount of energy. But Solar Panels are brittle, large and fragile instruments which cannot be used outside premises, because of its unportable nature. The purpose of 'PowerCloth 1G' is to offer portability of solar panels, by making them cloth-like.
Currently, Silicon based solar cells are the norm, sustaining stability and >15% efficiency . However, such solar panels are brittle and frail in nature. Apparels are easier to carry because of their lightweight and foldable nature. Keeping that idea in mind, portable solar cells were modeled after clothes. Exotic Solar use ultra-light fiber glass combined with Graphene embedded in a soft polymer matrix to provide flexibility, producing high efficiency, portable solar cells. Here is a video -
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Solar power brings a lot of advantages as an energy source, and is considered as a greener alternative of producing electricity. The photo-voltaic cells help in converting the solar energy into electricity, which is then used in an office or home. Solar Panels are set up on the roof of the building in order to gain an optimum amount of energy. But Solar Panels are brittle, large and fragile instruments which cannot be used outside premises, because of its unportable nature. The purpose of 'PowerCloth 1G' is to offer portability of solar panels, by making them cloth-like.
Currently, Silicon based solar cells are the norm, sustaining stability and >15% efficiency . However, such solar panels are brittle and frail in nature. Apparels are easier to carry because of their lightweight and foldable nature. Keeping that idea in mind, portable solar cells were modeled after clothes. Exotic Solar use ultra-light fiber glass combined with Graphene embedded in a soft polymer matrix to provide flexibility, producing high efficiency, portable solar cells. Here is a video -
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