Switching on to nanogeneration
Date: Sunday, June 10, 2007 @ 22:28:59 GMT
Topic: General


BBC News - Sciewne/Nature / VIEWPOINT/ Clemens Betzel

The G8 summit has delivered an apparent consensus that action must be taken to limit greenhouse gas emissions, but uncertainty remains on the best way to tackle the problem. In this week's Green Room, Clemens Betzel argues devices that generate their own power must be part of the solution.


As a society, we are beginning to accept that climate change is a challenge of monumental proportions.

While governments and businesses are grasping the nettle with varying degrees of urgency, the importance of small actions of carbon reduction is being trumpeted with increasing regularity.
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Going local

Microgeneration does not suffer from the same inefficiencies as large grid systems because the electricity is not transmitted through wires over many miles - what is generated is used.
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But there is another level of alternative generation that is, at present, unheralded and which will become more and more relevant as technological development gathers pace - nanogeneration.
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Now consider the fact that all it would take to wipe out these emissions would be the introduction of a small photovoltaic device to replace each charger - one which is flexible, durable, cheap to produce and, crucially, works in ambient (indoor) light.

Seeing the light

This is not a pipe-dream. I know because my own business, G24 Innovations, has just built a factory in Cardiff to manufacture this technological breakthrough in solar cells on a large scale.

Full article: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6733651.stm






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