[sdiy] DIY IC's at Home

[David Ingebretsen]

I thought zinc-oxide was a reasonable substitute in solar panels... no?

David

~~ -----Original Message-----
~~ From: synth-diy-bounces at dropmix.xs4all.nl [mailto:synth-diy-
~~ bounces at dropmix.xs4all.nl] On Behalf Of Ian Fritz
~~ Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2010 4:10 PM
~~ To: Alexander Chayka; synth DIY
~~ Subject: Re: [sdiy] DIY IC's at Home
~~ 
~~ Well, read the transcript and see what it actually says.  First, you have
~~ to put down a plastic film with electrodes. So we're back to that
~~ already.  Hardly a paint job.  Then, this TiO2 layer you are going to
~~ paint
~~ on couldn't possibly work unless it is just a few microns thick and
~~ uniform.  Not much room for error here.  Then some mythical conducting,
~~ transparent clearcoat for the top electrode.  Something totally
~~ weatherproof, to boot.
~~ 
~~ And as it is, the world only has about five years worth of Indium
~~ reserves,
~~ which is going to make any massive solar photovoltaic rollout virtually
~~ impossible.  I know some of those multijunction solar cell folks -- they
~~ never talk about where all the exotic material is going to come
~~ from.  They're just playing in their labs.  Great fun!
~~ 
~~ 
~~ 
~~ At 02:59 PM 3/11/2010, Alexander Chayka wrote:
~~ >A kind of dumb follow up on that, but I think I actually watched
~~ >something on Nova about the painting....
~~ >
~~ >...ahh, here it is: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/solar/about.html,
~~ >last paragraph. I'm sure the video has more information towards the
~~ >end (Can't point you there, I'm currently at work).
~~ 
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