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Painting your House So It Becomes a Solar Panel

November 10, 2009/

In three to five years, having a solar panel might be as easy as spray painting your roof.

Spray-on solar ink is a concept professor Brian Korgel http://www.che.utexas.edu/korgel-group/ and his research team of the University of Texas at Austin.

Korgel hopes the product will make solar more popular. Spray-on solar ink could draw consumers by being simpler and less expensive than the conventional silicon panels we use today.

By Tracy Staedter

Full Story: http://news.discovery.com/tech/spray-paint-with-solar-panels.html

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