The most advanced potential commercial use the team developed is a transparent coating that can be applied to home windows, a moving vehicle, or even clothing. The coating collects solar energy and releases heat, reducing electricity required for heating
An Energy Breakthrough Could Store Solar Power for Decades
For decades, scientists have sought an affordable and effective way of capturing, storing, and releasing solar energy. Researchers in Sweden say they have a solution that would allow the power of the sun’s rays to be used across a range of consumer applications—heating everything from homes to vehicles.
Scientists at Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg have figured out how to harness the energy and keep it in reserve so it can be released on demand in the form of heat—even decades after it was captured. The innovations include an energy-trapping molecule, a storage system that promises to outperform traditional batteries, at least when it comes to heating, and an energy-storing laminate coating…
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Sounds good but in the immortal words of Arte Johnson, “Verrry interestink, but vill it verk?”
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Chris Goodall discusses a number of similar technologies in his book The Switch The question he poses is whether similar technologies can be scaled up fast enough to make them cheap enough to replace fossil fuels in time to prevent catastrophic climate change.
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