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Printable A3-sized solar cells hit a new milestone in green energy
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Imagine a future where solar panels speed off the presses, like newspaper. Australian scientists have brought us one step closer to that reality.
Researchers from the Victorian Organic Solar Cell Consortium (VICOSC) have developed a printer that can print 10 meters of flexible solar cells a minute. Unlike traditional silicon solar cells, printed solar cells are made using organic semi-conducting polymers, which can be dissolved in a solvent and used like an ink, allowing solar cells to be printed.
Not only can the VICOSC machine print flexible A3 solar cells, the machine can print directly on to steel, opening up the possibility for solar cells to be embedded directly into building materials.
“Eventually we see these being laminated to windows that line skyscrapers,” said David Jones, a researcher at University of Melbourne who is involved with the work. “By printing directly to materials like steel, we’ll also be able to embed cells onto roofing materials.”
Printing 10 meters of solar cells in a minute means good things for solar.
(via Printable A3-sized solar cells hit a new milestone in green energy | Ars Technica)
Totally nerding out to this…
Yann Pocreau, today at Residency Unlimited (curated by my fiancée aka Jodi Waynberg aka the jam)
Not sure I’m a fan of the artist statement, but this work is gorgeous, and definitely worth the time.
“It was important that people come to value light as we value gold, silver, paintings, objects.”
—James TurrellNew video from the Exclusive series: James Turrell, our current 100 Artists featured artist, describes the values and perceptions of light while revisiting one of his “skyspace” works, Second Meeting (1989).
WATCH: James Turrell: “Second Meeting”
IMAGES: Production stills from the Exclusive film, James Turrell: “Second Meeting”. © Art21, Inc. 2013.
Can. Not. Wait. For the James Turrell show to open at the Guggenheim next month!
Seriously.
#realfiction
*From the Archives*First up today: Postmasters first logo
- designed by long time friend, artist Filip Pagowski (you might know his work…he is also responsible for the Comme des Garcons PLAY evil heart logo)
Isn’t this precious?
From the story “$495 Million” by man. Read it on Backspaces.
I (highly) endorse this event.
Join Triple Canopy at MoMA PS1 this Thursday, May 16 at 2pm and 4pm for a discussion and lecture with Dan Phiffer as part of Speculations (“The future is ______”), fifty days of lectures, discussions and debates about the future as part of EXPO 1: New York.
See full school schedule here.
Phiffer is an artist, programmer and creator of Occupy. here, a peer-to-peer network of virtual spaces (autonomous from the Internet) for open political discussions. Phiffer’s Occupy.here will be accessible via wifi in PS1’s gallery, through which visitors can access a digital Speculations Library.
MoMA PS1, 22-25 Jackson Ave., Long Island City
2pm seminar, 4pm lecture
FREE with museum admission
Endorsed x2
Yoko Inoue
Lollipops (component of “Mandala Flea Market Mutants: Pop Protocol and the Seven Transformations of Good-luck National Defense Cats” installation)
Ongoing from 2000-2013
Adrián Villar Rojas @MoMAPS1 #EXPO1
Your Waste of Time | Olafur Eliasson @ PS1 for #EXPO1
They are. Happy Mother’s Day, Mom. I love you.
The Rain Room at MoMA…
For those of you in NY:
While I wouldn’t recommend waiting more than 20 minutes to see it, it was a rather unique and fun experience.
The light is so bright! The effect is somewhere between disorienting and exhilarating as the rain falls around, but not on you.
Definitely walk towards the light.
