Karl Burkart: Solar goes Hyper in the U.S.
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As the U.S. government continues to heap billions in subsidies to the world’s wealthiest coal and oil companies, the solar industry has been struggling to make it here in the states. This is sad for many reasons, not the least of which is the fact that we’re missing out on one of the biggest growth industries in the world.
Currently there are 16 gigawatts of installed solar power globally. That number will grow to about 1,800 gigawatts in the next twenty years, making it one of the best job creators in the world. U.S. engineers invented the solar panel and we should bedominating that market. Instead, foreign manufacturers (particularly in China) have taken our IP and run with it, as we become increasingly dependent on foreign oil and dirty coal operations to meet our power needs.
Fortunately HyperSolar, a new U.S. company, is blessing us with a ray of sunny hope on the clean energy frontier.
The company does not manufacture solar panels, but makes them ultra efficient using a field of science called Photonics. Similar to a microchip which moves individual bits of data around at hyperspeed, HyperSolar’s thin magnifying film routes and separates out specific light spectrums, delivering them exactly where they’re needed to make an array of PV solar cells ultra-efficient.
Read more at mother nature network (MNN) and follow Karl @greendig
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