{"id":522834,"date":"2010-04-10T09:29:29","date_gmt":"2010-04-10T13:29:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cleantechnica.com\/?p=8104"},"modified":"2010-04-10T09:29:29","modified_gmt":"2010-04-10T13:29:29","slug":"cheap-solar-paint-takes-a-giant-step-closer-to-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/522834","title":{"rendered":"Cheap Solar Paint Takes a Giant Step Closer to Reality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-8106\" href=\"http:\/\/cleantechnica.com\/2010\/04\/10\/cheap-solar-paint-takes-a-giant-step-closer-to-reality\/cheap-solar-paint-is-on-the-horizon\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8106\" title=\"Cheap solar paint is on the horizon\" src=\"http:\/\/go635254.s3.amazonaws.com\/cleantechnica\/files\/2010\/04\/Cheap-solar-paint-is-on-the-horizon.jpg\" alt=\"NextGen solar bets on affordable solar power from solar paint\" width=\"500\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>For all the excitement over <a title=\"cleantechnica.com article\" href=\"http:\/\/cleantechnica.com\/2010\/03\/21\/we-are-thisclose-to-affordable-concentrating-solar-power-and-more-green-jobs-too\/\" >low cost solar power<\/a>, much of it is still in the development stage backed by government resources and has yet to prove that it can compete on the market with cheap fossil fuels.\u00a0\u00a0 However some private investors are starting to bet on low cost solar in a big way.\u00a0 Among them is tech specialist Len Batterson, whose startup\u00a0 <a title=\"chicagobusines.com article\" href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagobusiness.com\/cgi-bin\/article.pl?articleId=33219\" >NextGen Solar<\/a> is kicking into gear.<\/p>\n<p>NextGen Solar will use nanoscale solar &#8220;paint&#8221; technology developed by <a title=\"Argonne National Laboratory website\" href=\"http:\/\/www.anl.gov\/\" >Argonne National Laboratory<\/a>, with the goal of lowering production costs while increasing efficiency compared to thin-film photovoltaic materials. <a href=\"http:\/\/cleantechnica.com\/2010\/04\/10\/cheap-solar-paint-takes-a-giant-step-closer-to-reality\/#more-8104\" class=\"more-link\">(more&#8230;)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For all the excitement over low cost solar power, much of it is still in the development stage backed by government resources and has yet to prove that it can compete on the market with cheap fossil fuels.\u00a0\u00a0 However some private investors are starting to bet on low cost solar in a big way.\u00a0 Among [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6399,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-522834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522834","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\/6399"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=522834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522834\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=522834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=522834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=522834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}