Solar glass that can turn the bright stuff flooding our windows directly into the electricity running, well, practically everything in our lives, has long been a kind of Holy Grail in green building tech.
Such glass hasn’t been affordable enough to penetrate the market – but New Energy Technologies is working to remedy that. The Columbia, Md., company recently announced that the researchers working on its SolarWindow product have fabricated a working window prototype using a faster process for applying its solution-based coatings.
Read more: www.earthtechling.com/2011/12/solar-glass-developer-claims-advances/