The compounds solar panels are comprised of are compartmentalized in a handheld container, with the appropriate solvents. The compartments are sequentially accessed at an extremely rapid rate and sprayed through a common nozzle.
-- normzone, May 19 2006

Giving credit where credit is due. Solar_20Panel_20Printer
[normzone, May 19 2006]

First, there's this Photovoltaic_20Paint
[Shz, May 19 2006]

Spray-on solar cells http://news.nationa...4_solarplastic.html
[Shz, May 19 2006]

I think you need to do better than that.
-- DrCurry, May 19 2006


Magic? Baked.
-- Shz, May 19 2006


Tartan paint?
-- Jinbish, May 19 2006


magic?
-- sninctown, May 19 2006


Not magic, just not cost effective technology, and handheld is probably a gross exaggeration. This thing would be the size of an oil drum.

I have also realized that just because it may be able to lay down a sequence of layers in a given area (ignoring the low probablility that each layer will dry in the short period of time before the next one comes down) that I have no means of interconnecting the areas in the XY axis.

And, it looks like, baked, per [Shz]'s link.

Oh well, I was only having a bit of fun at the Solar Panel Printer idea.
-- normzone, May 19 2006


i really don't think it could work ...cause trying to spray a solar panel on to a wall is like trying to make a rock haggen in mid air with nothing supporting it ....because a solar panel is constructed of siclon wich is a metalliod so it is hard like rock so that could come out of a can and besides that wat about the wires ....just a thought
-- vbtallhobbit, Aug 09 2006



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