Powering Your Car with its Paint
The new invention of Wales university scientists is not intended for a mass production currently. However despite of this fact it is very interesting and promising. Some of you can say that there is no such thing as free lunch. However nothing can prevent us from dreaming about a free lunch.
Welsh inventors offer to cover a way of gathering solar energy through the vehicle’s skin! The steel should be treated with a paint containing a photovoaltaic substance which allows gathering energy and transferring it to the place where power is needed. At first this magic paint will be tested on skyscrapers and large buildings. This will allow generating 4,500 gigawatts of electricity a year (the equivalent of 50 wind farms). And imagine yourself that soon this paint will be used for everything from private houses to — why not? — your vehicle.
Written by autoguru on March 18th, 2008 with
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