Post #3772823
2026-07-12 23:54 UTC
RE: https://mastodon.world/@jblue/116908292371948193
This is from 2013, and hasn't been commercialized yet.
ClearVue uses a different approach to accomplish a similar thing. They dope glass with nano particles that scatter IR and UV light towards the edge of the glass, but let most visible light pass through. Then they have traditional PV cells on the edge of the glass. Smart.
ClearVue have their tech in some commercial installations already.
https://www.clearvuepv.com/project/warwick-shopping-centre-atrium/
We should be increasing both research grants, and commercial incentives for this tech. Eg, instead of the US guaranteeing that it will buy your corn to incentive you to grow it, we should guarantee that we will buy a certain number of cells at a given price, to encourage volume and take on the risk of scaling production.
But hey, gotta DOGE and give the tax breaks to individuals instead.🤷🏿♂️
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@thefyuuri@infosec.exchange 2026-07-13 01:03
@mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io broke my heart seeing this article earlier today and thinking, "well, the US should jump on this but probably won't" and then noticing this article was 13 years old and finding out I was already right.