Solar Paint Converts Light to Electricity

That's great for electric fences and a small number of other uses, if the they get the % up. Does Yahoo do any articles on Algae? It can be made into ethanol, gasoline, diesel, jet-fuel, and other bio-fuels. One acre can make over 20,000 gallons of oil a year, and the plant "pulp" can be used as feed, fertilizer, or even be converted to ethanol. It eats CO2 and makes oxygen, its doesn't need fresh water, and can be grown almost anywhere.

Just don't license it to the Chinese like we have done with other technologies!

anything is better then dirty air.and something is better then nothing.

Slightly misleading article. Read fine print: Must be painted onto conductive glass electrode. How many homes are made of conducting glass? Yeah, thats what I thought. But bravo on the innovation front there boys :) Im sure maybe a high-rise building or something might be able to make use of it.

By itself this isn't a major breakthrough, but remember that the fast and efficient car you drive today started out as the tin lizzy of 100 years ago. There's so much more to learn.

Silly scientists, creating new industries, we should be concentrating on jobs!!!

Oh... wait....

produce it here and not china.
Stop giving our inventions to china.

This is cool. Now, how about sound-absorbing paint for noisy shopping malls?

I can see it now...my dog pees on the side of the house and gets electrocuted.

so that means 1% instead of 10%. Since solar panels require a flat surface somewhere, you could paint the entire surface of a house where it wouldn't be practical to place a panel. This should more than make up the difference in efficiency. They did say it was cheap. So where can we buy it?

Great! We should ll use metal housing (roof and walls) and the paint on the metal to generate electricity!

awesome

Hemp - natures solar energy converter.

Out Standing Product, think of the electricity that can be created for the price of the paint.
and the conversion accessories. Cudos

Well, by the time they license it to Glidden or Behr, or whoever, it will cost $200 a gallon.

What is replaced are the solar cells which are made from silicon and not the electrodes. The manufacture of silicon wafers is still quite expensive and for most of the time solar cells were made from rejected wafers of the electronics industry. There are wafers made now just for solar but still expensive. If this technology can be perfected, it might be alternative to the silicon wafers.

make all exterior paint that way and it reduce our coal/hydro/nuk usage by.........

Mental note- No more powdered sugar on the french toast.

The article states "The particles are coated with semiconducting cadmium nanocrystals". I thought cadmium is toxic. If so, wouldn't we then end up running into the same trouble down the road as we currently are with old leaded paint if this cadmium containing paint were used on a scale widespread enough to generate significant electricity?

This is just a start...like any new discovery, there is always room for advancement in efficiency. I have faith that the folks who made the discovery are already trying to figure out how to make it most efficient and with the most practical application. Who knows, eventually anything that can be painted could use this. It has the potential to take a huge burden off of our current system. Now the question is whether big Power Corporations will fight this, or possibly buy up this company and make this product way over priced knocking out any chance of possible competition with Big Corp. Sadly, we rely on working all of the time in order to afford to have just the basics. So a discovery like this that has the potential of bringing virtually free energy to every household would create waves of job losses at traditional suppliers. As long as the only purpose we serve is to work, I doubt Big Corp would try to stop any type of discovery that would render them useless. We have the potential to a sustainable lifestyle - we already have many other options...but we only think with a profit driven mentality..if we can't make money off of something then it isn't worth doing...even if it makes every human's life so much easier for many generations. It's pretty sad that we have the technology for everyone on the planet to have running water, electricity and bathrooms, fresh food...but instead we go to war to keep others from having what we have. It would be nice to have everyone think of each other as humans instead of solely based on where you were born. If we all worked as a team, our potential could be endless. It's a fantasy