I think if it is widely applied, it will boom the development of solar.

thankyou.

tine.

I am looking for Solar power for my house, so probably i will go for DSSC, Can you help in doing so?
I want to know the complete procedure.
Thanks a lot.

Is any person, University or Company researching the use of recycled garbage for solar cell components? This is a renewable resource and grows daily. It is available worldwide. Eventually future supplies (if garbage production goes down) can be retrieved from old land fills. Look around, there are building being demolished, there are old plane, boats, cars sitting in graveyards, tires with steel belts littering the world, plastics, tin, electronics, batteries, appliances, carpets, clothing, ceramics, wood, roofing, everything made over the past 200 years of development that has become obsolete is sitting somewhere piling up.

All this old junk and garbage came from earths natural materials. Time to reuse it. Maybe, it is considered too expensive to recycle it. THAT thinking comes from the older generation. Get out of the box, give it some real thought to turn old thoughts around and I believe you will find the solutions to cost and usages.

When our science and technology industry develops to a point that it stops looking for new ways to rape the earth of its natural materials, and reuse that which has already been extracted in some form or another, then the world can celebrate. Until then, this is just another name or oil and coal and it is still too expensive.

According to the little I read, one has to use 10 times as many cells so it costs 10 times less. DUH! same price.

Show me a site where Science and Technology has a different mindset. One that really wants to develop something new and exciting that is as readily available and affordable to everyone around the world.

btw: this should be done via small parts of our own dna. the enzyms are capable of forging proteins, if supplied with the proper enviroment, like sugar, water and some trace elements.

If in far future titanium dioxide became rare, why not self-synthesizing it with our own bodies? Anybody an idea how much this woukd cost?

Sorry for the tone. It was not directed at you. :) Proteins are chemicals also. If you really want to split hairs they are both proteinaceous chelates or pro-enzymes if you prefer. Doesn’t really matter about the terminology or the minor difference in molecular structure either. What does matter is efficientcy of energy transfer and stability at higher temperatures. Hemoglobin denatures more readily a higher temps. Chlorophyll takes evolutionary presidence and is more efficient at energy transfer, being an electron pump as opposed to a proton transfer mechanism. I was just pointing out the amazing similarities as my biology professor did, not the minor differences. Maybe I should not write at all and just draw pictures. We should be spending our time working on fusion anyway. Chemical processes for energy are like stone knives and bear skins.

GreyFlcn: No, titanium is of course not renewable, but it is not rare either. Unfortumately the native Ti02 is not taken as is from the ground, it is first converted to a highly reactive Titanium tetrachloride and then converted back to the oxide as part of the purification process. The titanium tetrachloride is a unhappy molecule which spits out hydrochloride acid when it contacts moist air – the plants that produce the oxide do occasionally blow up and hurt people.
The good news is I don’t know of a lot of toxic by-products produced in the whole process.