Solar Power gets even cooler!
Found this over on TreeHugger, who inturn found it on TheGreenGuy, who got the information from a factory tour of Sharp. What a lucky guy.
I can’t wait until we see a few more customers with The New Light so we can start outfitting our home with Solar and other forms of Green Energy. I heard the other day on CBC radio that the Government is giving back something like 46 cents per kilowatt hour that you inject back into the grid for the next 5 years for new Solar panel installs. This is alright though it usually takes 20 years to recoup the cost. I for one am hoping that with more and more people seeing the benefit to greener energy and getting away from our petrol controlled world that the purchasing power of the consumer on solar panels will increase, thus decreasing the price on units for the not so rich person such as myself 
Anyway, check out the cool Sharp LumiWall LED panels.
Imagine a conservatory roof that looks like shaded glass by day, but by evening is transformed into a patchwork quilt of gentle white LED lights. Well, it – Sharp’s LumiWall (far left) – is coming your way, and it’s powered entirely by thin-film solar panels inside the glass. So you could even use the stuff for glass in an off-grid geodisic dome in the middle of your garden. If that pushes your buttons.
The LumiWall glass was just one of the cool things I got to poke and prod at a trip to Sharp’s solar factory last Thursday. It’s up in Wrexham – home, surprise, surprise, to Wrexham lager – and churns out an incredible 2,4000 solar panels every day.
Posted July 28, 2006 - Filed In LED News
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