Solar Power at 10 cents per watt

[RAMSET]

Thanks to Aaron for pointing this out ,it seems to have gone by the wayside?
it would behoove us to "fix" that.

the work of Stanford R. Ovshinsky

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6n7H8EtMUE

Thx for looking

Chet
ps
If there is a thread explaining why this has disappeared or how its done please post it.

[MonsieurM]

Stanford R. Ovshinsky - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Ovitron[edit]

By the late 1950s, working at General Automation, Ovshinsky brought together these disparate studies in an invention. Crossing scientific disciplines that academics traditionally hold separate, including neurophysiology and cybernetics, Stan invented, and Herb Ovshinsky helped build, a mechanical model of a nerve cell – an amorphous thin-film switch they called the Ovitron. Stan patented the device and the brothers disclosed it publicly in 1959 in New York City. In an attempt to model the learning ability of nerve cells, which Stan recognized as deriving from the plasticity of the cell's membrane, he drew on his knowledge of surfaces and materials to fashion very thin layers of amorphous material, thus pioneering the use of nanostructures. He created these layers by combining elements, especially from the Group 16 elements under oxygen, known as chalcogenides, including sulphur, selenium, and tellurium. He would continue to work with chalcogenides in his inventions for decades to come.[12]
Work from 1960[edit]
Energy Conversion Laboratory[edit]

On January 1, 1960, Ovshinsky and Iris Miroy Dibner, whom he married soon after his divorce from Norma Rifkin, founded Energy Conversion Laboratory to develop his inventions in the interest of solving societal problems, especially those they identified in the areas of information and energy (e.g. pollution and wars over oil).[13] Iris had a BA in zoology from Swarthmore College, an MS in biology from the University of Michigan, and a PhD in biochemistry from Boston University.[14] Continuing to work on his atomically designed chalcogenide materials, which Ovshinsky realized offer unique electronic physical mechanisms, he utilized chain structures, cross links, polymeric concepts, and divalent structural bonding with a huge number of unbounded lone pairs to achieve what is now referred to as the Ovshinsky Effect – "an effect that turns special types of glassy, thin films into semiconductors upon application of low voltage."[15] Applying this effect, he built new types of electronic and optical switches, including his Ovonic Phase Change Memory and his Threshold Switch. The former would become the basis of his subsequent inventions of rewritable CDs and DVDs and other new computer technologies including his cognitive computer.[4] While others working in the crystalline field were building devices based on bulk materials, Ovshinsky's work in the 1960s and later continued to be based on thin films and nanostructures.[4] Recognizing the significance of his results, Ovshinsky applied for a patent on June 21, 1961 and, in 1962, made his first licensing pact on phase-change memory.

In popular culture[edit]

Ovshinsky appeared in the documentary Who Killed the Electric Car?, as well as in parts 1 and 3 of the episode "Hydrogen Hopes" of Alan Alda's television series Scientific American Frontiers. The website of Scientific American Frontiers makes "Hydrogen Hopes" available for viewing at no charge, as well as the text of an interview with Stan and Iris Ovshinsky.[2] Ovshinsky was profiled as "Japan's American Genius" in the PBS series NOVA (October 1987).

+

When things get glassy, molecules go fractal

+

http://www.energeticforum.com/243144-post3201.html

.... Another One Bites the Dust - Queen - YouTube .... Savoring Servant: Fractal patterns in music

[velacreations]

is there a DIY version?

[Farmhand]

Is there even a purchasable line of products ? No use if we cannot buy them or
make them, they might as well not exist.

Maybe someone could find a retail outlet that will sell and ship the material or
solar cells. If we cannot obtain them then they go into the realm of unobtainium.

I have some money, If I can source the product I will buy some, period, simple.

Any info on how to obtain it ?

Cheers

[Farmhand]

Stan has passed over, his business ran at losses for 35 years. He invented the Nickel-metal hydride battery.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/19/technology/stanford-ovshinsky-an-inventor-compared-to-edison-dies-at-89.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

For a 2720 watt kit, the cost is around $20,000 with tax and shipping.

That's around $7.35 per Watt but I presume that includes everything needed for a complete system, likely grid tied.

Stan and Iris

I just want to buy the base material - cells, and I want to find where I can buy it for 10 cents a watt.

..

[RAMSET]

some good leads

might have a path to follow will check it out tomorrow
I don't make cold calls on Sunday
thx
Chet