I've been hearing about these things for a few years now and have yet to see one come to market? I hope this isn't like all the others I've read about.

LOL, hopes to be ready by 2016. Just a few minor things to work out, like how it's actually going to work, whether it will cost $10 per square foot, and whether it will last more than a week in real conditions. Vaporware! I'm still excited to see all the work being done on alternative energy, and am hoping for the Big Day when one of these amazing technologies actually replaces coal plants to any degree.

I am having a very strong feeling of deja vu here. Didnt I read that before, like a few years ago?

It's a good time to be alive.

It took, what 40 years for computers to be available commercially, 7 years for CDs to go from prototype to release (and longer to really reach commercial viability). Why all the bitching about how new technologies take years to develop these days? That's how long these things take! If you don't want to know about developments/ideas years before commercial viability, stop reading the newsletter.

Yeah yeah yeah .... I am a bit tired of the "Imagine" and "the grand plans for the future".

Window glass $25 extra a square meter for the solar conversion film, from the glaziers - here, now, today.

The big sell of "The friendly atom - where every home one day will have their own nuclear reactor in the basement giving unlimited energy forever" (and in the car, and in the plane, and and and and ) hasn't quite worked out.

I mean we have had decades of the "Golly wow gee" hype.

they don't want to electrocute the window cleaners

They're still quite tight with uranium :(

We can't have it at all here in NZ.

All about 2 heads, glowing children and bombs or something.

Otherwise I'd be up for a DIY pebble bed in the basement.... once I clear out the bodies... don't want zombies and you really don't want mutant radioactive zombies.

ANY advancement in Solar technology is a blessing... but just like some others... quite itchy to see it (I think that's why I'm itchy)

This is real science-'nonfiction'... and if True, its going to re-invent the good uses of Nano Technology.

Keep It Going!

Harpal Sahota.

These are great, just making it a bit harder to sell current solar technology when these companies come up with ideas and bs claims that probably wont come through. People tend to say, "why buy now, when tomorrow our windows will be solar panels." Like someone said, vaporware, it makes me have to bring them back to reality with all the plentiful examples of technology that "will be ready in 10 years".

I agree, all the hype and no available product makes me a dull boy. I read about photovoltaic windos several years ago and expected a product available after three years, it seems like everybody in the world is dragging their feet to get more R&D money to keep testing forever until somebody else makes a bigger claim and get's the Reasearch money for themselves for another six years. If we can do it now, let's do it now. A 20 percent efficiency in an electric car windo set would add an extra 180 watts on top of the 1000 watts we should be getting with the top surfaces of the car, adding an extra hour of driving to a vehicle, or about 50 miles anyway. Looking forward to the reality of "Add To Cart" purchasing. Wade.

Many companies around the world are are trying to replace Solar powered windows with spraying thin film solar technology. If this technology really works as planned, it could help the industrial settings largely where the buildings are in need of solar panels.

Where's my flying car!?!?!?!!1111///

Do Want!

i want to ask ques. that what will be the cost of this material to spray on 1 m^2 area.

is it affordable by common to people

Yeaaaa, Boeing, were is my PAVE - aka Personal Aerial Vehicle?

Couple of years back(more like 10) a friend of mine working in building industry, gave me a brochure of Siemens, were this German firm already had such a technology!

But did not properly hit the market. I don't know why, though.

What happened to the super efficient window panel technology developed in Florida recently? Is it comparable, and when can we buy some??

Not so fast with all that praise: sounds good prima facie, I admit - but upon further scrutiny it turns out that any safety aspects have not properly been takein into consideration. The "coating" or "film" seems to be nanotech-based and its health hazards (abrasion, inhalation of particles, food-chain contamination etc) are TOTALLY unknown today.

"Green" means ecologic: and ECOLOGY is the knowledge of the whole thing/world which, in my humble opinion, should include humans and all other forms of life - don't you think? So how "ecologic" would it be to risk further damage to these just to save a few bucks per Watt installed? There are equally promising and BETTER ways of harnessing high-tech solar power! (CSP or concentrating solar power comes to mind here.) Should we have greed take over Green energy just like everything else? There's no such thing as a free lunch for the greedy and hasty, not even with solar power...

Take your time -- not your life!

I hope you all understand that "spray on" DOES NOT mean you will go to the local hardware store to purchase a can of solar film and spray it on like spray paint. The spray on is actually called "Magnetron Sputtering." It is a deposition process similar to electroplating, except it takes place in a gaseous environment rather than liquid. The glass panels will be produced in a plant and sold to the installer (or maybe the consumer if you think you can do it yourself).

Sorry folks, but this article seems to imply that the product will be available as a consumer spray on product which is wrong.

There is a fairly decent explanation of the process in Wikipedia (if you can survive the atrocious grammar and sentence structure). Search "magnetron sputtering."

The link to their web page is: www.ensol.no

Until humanity gets rid of the greed factor none of these advances will ever get out of the development stage. Big oil Big power generators will never let go of the political leaders in their pockets and our collective throats. They and their minions will stop at nothing to put the kibosh on all possible technology until all the non renewable fuel sources have run out then the mega wealthy will rule as they have longed for through out human history. The sad thing though is that we fall for the same B.S. every time and let the wolves guard the hen houses, the hens get eaten then we wine and then we forget until the next hopeful idea. The elite in this country have all the power and control example, the housing bubble, with the production capability in this country gutted by shipping production over seas and the generation that witnessed the great depression, (and in acted laws to close many of the loop holes and pull us out of that mess) Dead, in 2000 the powers that be rolled back those laws because no one remembered and let the Wolves eat us hens and get fat on our flesh, we get used and abused and we let them do it so why whine and complain about any of this? We are all just cannon fodder or better yet cattle waiting to enter the slaughter house!