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RIP: Florida Solar Subsidies (but that’s okay)
What was once true has become a myth. In years past, it didn’t make much sense to install solar panels (solar electric/photovoltaic modules) from a financial standpoint without generous subsidies, rebates, and incentives. The payback period was too long for most investors (see my article on the folly of the payback metric here). Except for [...]
Can Hypersolar’s Magnifying Top Sheet Shrink the Cost of Solar?
Magnifyingglasses have been around almost as long as glass. As far as technologygoes, there’s not a whole lot that’s cutting edge about them. Butimagine a thin sheet of millions of tiny little magnifying glasses, andimagine what would happen if you laid that over a solar panel as the top sheet. A California company, HyperSolar, is [...]
Shrink Nanotechnologies Forms Solar Subsidiary
Shrink Nanotechnologies Inc., a nanotechnology company that develops productsand licensing opportunities in the solar energy production, medicaldiagnostics and sensors and biotechnology research and development tools businesses, has formed a new wholly owned subsidiary calledShrink Solar LLC, which is focused on commercializing its solartechnologies. Using the company’s nano-structured solar filmdesigns, Shrink’s solar concentrator designs, which will [...]
Shrink Nanotechnologies Forms Renewable Energy Team
Shrink Nanotechnologies Inc., a nanotechnology company developingproducts and licensing opportunities in the solar energy production andother sectors, has formed a renewable energy team. The team comprises Drs. Sayantani Ghosh and Roland Winston. Ghoshis an assistant professor at the School of Natural Sciences at theUniversity of California, Merced. She has performed significantresearch and is published in [...]
Shrink Nanotechnologies Allies with Inabata America for Solar Products
Shrink Nanotechnologies Inc., an innovative nanotechnology companydeveloping products and licensing opportunities in the solar energyproduction, medical diagnostics and sensors and biotechnology researchand development tools businesses, announced a strategic alliance withInabata America Corp. to market and sell the company’s OptiSol SolarConcentrator technologies and ShrinkChip Rapid Prototyping Solution(RPS). Inabata America Corporation is a subsidiary ofJapan-based Inabata & [...]