Printed Electronics Gets More Ambitious

She completed a BFA at Emily Carr Institute and an MFA at the Slade in London, UK and now teaches in the Digital Visual Arts department.”

Photovoltaics Beyond Conventional Silicon

The outstandingly successful investor Jim Mellon has recently invested heavily in solar power, initially in the form of the metals that will be needed such as gallium and germanium. He says it will be “bigger than the internet within five years”. He adds, “Solar is genuinely clean - it ticks all sorts of zeitgeist boxes. Within five years, solar power will be as cheap as oil and gas without the subsidy.” Although there is doubtless an element of exaggeration about this he has a point and he is right to perceive that little of this potential will be tackled with conventional crystalline or amorphous silicon. However, even conventional silicon is making some people very wealthy such is the race for the new power sources. For example, directors of PV Crystallox Solar in the UK netted $480 million when it floated on the London Stock Exchange in 2008.