Day’s Best: “Dark Solar”
Faced with a flood of cheap solar panels from China, Golden-based researchers at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory went dark.
As The Denver Post’s Mark Jaffe reports, the researchers have developed a process,
Day’s Best: “Dark Solar”
Faced with a flood of cheap solar panels from China, Golden-based researchers at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory went dark.
As The Denver Post’s Mark Jaffe reports, the researchers have developed a process, called “dark solar,” to manufacture the silicon panels with trillions of tiny holes – holes that allow the panels to absorb so much light that only 2 percent of the sun’s rays are reflected, significantly less than the 7 percent that is the industry standard.
NREL has licensed the process, known as “dark solar,” to Red Bank, N.J.-based Natcore Technology Inc., which is combining the technique it with its own low-cost solar-cell-manufacturing p