{"id":225990,"date":"2010-01-25T11:16:05","date_gmt":"2010-01-25T16:16:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gereports.com\/?p=5024"},"modified":"2010-01-25T11:16:05","modified_gmt":"2010-01-25T16:16:05","slug":"the-ge-genius-series-catching-rays-with-%e2%80%98solar-sails%e2%80%99","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/225990","title":{"rendered":"The GE Genius Series: Catching rays with \u2018solar sails\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span id=\"more-5024\"><\/span><em>Contributor Vivek Kemp is GE\u2019s Reporter at Large<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Our ongoing \u201cGE Genius Series\u201d is all about meeting the people in GE\u2019s labs who are driving the next big breakthroughs. In our first two installments, Radislav Potyrailo revealed how butterfly wings are fanning his nanotechnology research and Anil Duggal lit the path to a future of bendable OLEDs that will one day fill your home with wallpaper lights. Today we meet Danielle Merfeld, who heads up solar technology programs at GE Global Research\u2019s lab in Niskayuna, New York. Like her colleague Anil, Danielle thinks thin when it comes to letting the sunshine in. \u201cThe biggest next step is going to be when you start putting thin [solar panel] films around a flexible substrate that can be wrapped around things,\u201d she says in the audio slideshow below. \u201cThey can conform to a roof, or hung like sails. Not only are they very light, and hopefully very inexpensive to produce, they\u2019re also more architecturally interesting and you can do a lot more with them than you can with a rigid panel of any size.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><GEREPORTS_WEBONLY IMAGE=\"http:\/\/files.gereports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/danielle.jpg\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"BCvideo\">\n<div id=\"BCvideo1\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gereports.com\/the-ge-genius-series-catching-rays-with-solar-sails\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/files.gereports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/danielle.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/GEREPORTS_WEBONLY><\/p>\n<p>Meet the other scientists in our \u201cGE Genius\u201d series:<br \/>\n* \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gereports.com\/the-ge-genius-series-thin-is-in-with-oleds\/\">Part 2: Thin is in with OLEDs<\/a>\u201d<br \/>\n* \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gereports.com\/the-ge-genius-series-breakthroughs-from-butterflies\/\">Part 1: Breakthroughs from butterflies<\/a>\u201d<\/p>\n<p>* Learn more about our research labs in these <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gereports.com\/tag\/global-research\/\">GE Reports stories and videos<\/a><br \/>\n* Learn more about <a href=\"http:\/\/ge.geglobalresearch.com\/blog\/ecogeek-of-the-week\/\">Danielle\u2019s work on the GE Global Research blog<\/a><br \/>\n* Read about Danielle being featured as the \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ecogeek.org\/content\/view\/1606\/83\/\">EcoGeek of the Week<\/a>\u201d on ecogeek.org<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/gereports\/feed\/~4\/2cdDhUkhITI\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Contributor Vivek Kemp is GE\u2019s Reporter at Large Our ongoing \u201cGE Genius Series\u201d is all about meeting the people in GE\u2019s labs who are driving the next big breakthroughs. In our first two installments, Radislav Potyrailo revealed how butterfly wings are fanning his nanotechnology research and Anil Duggal lit the path to a future of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4069,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-225990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225990\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}