New generation solar cells.  Thin enough and transparent to glue to
building windows on office towers, cheaper, greener, more useable…

http://www.graphicartsonline.com/article/CA6602…

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/07/science/07obs…

I’m hoping this kind of technology moves to drive the cost of solar down.  Recently I read that similar new tech solar can deliver energy for 10c per kWh, a huge drop in cost compared to ultra expensive current silicon based solar technology.

Here is one example of film type solar cells. Hopefully the type DavidMc posted links to will hit the market soon.

http://www.solar-world.com/PowerFilm.htm

Cool site, those flexy films sure look destined for other applicaitons.  I ran numbers on a 5kW panel, and it came out a whopping $82,000 (though I am sure they could do a “discount”…)   So it seems that this brand praps isn’t quite there yet, but I keep hearing promising stuff in the space.