{"id":535717,"date":"2010-04-20T18:11:50","date_gmt":"2010-04-20T22:11:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cleantechnica.com\/?p=8535"},"modified":"2010-04-20T18:11:50","modified_gmt":"2010-04-20T22:11:50","slug":"3m-competes-to-make-solar-thermal-cheaper-with-a-thin-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/535717","title":{"rendered":"3M Competes to Make Solar Thermal Cheaper With a Thin Film"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cleantechnica.com\/files\/2010\/04\/3M_Mirror_Solar.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8536\" title=\"3M_Mirror_Solar\" src=\"http:\/\/go635254.s3.amazonaws.com\/cleantechnica\/files\/2010\/04\/3M_Mirror_Solar.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"409\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nNow even <a href=\"http:\/\/www.3m.com\/\">3M<\/a> is getting into the solar  biz. The huge Minnesota company is famous for the Post-It Note and other  mainstays of Western  civilization, but now their excellent materials scientists have been put to work creating a  reflective foil that can be used to make the\u00a0 (already rather cheap)  mirrors in solar thermal trough technology &#8211; <em>even cheaper<\/em>, through mass  production.<\/p>\n<p>They are not the first midwestern US giant of industry to enter this field. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article.cfm?id=aluminium-giant-to-make-solar-csp-c-2010-03\" >Alcoa also has a way to make the mirrors in solar thermal trough technology cheaper<\/a>,\u00a0 through the use of aluminum for the mirror.<\/p>\n<p>3M&#8217;s solution is to make a sticky-backed polymer sheath that protects a micro-layer of highly reflective copper and silver. Their new film would reflect more light than traditional mirrors, increasing   power output in a given area.<br \/>\n <a href=\"http:\/\/cleantechnica.com\/2010\/04\/20\/3m-competes-to-make-solar-thermal-cheaper-with-a-thin-film\/#more-8535\" class=\"more-link\">(more&#8230;)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now even 3M is getting into the solar biz. The huge Minnesota company is famous for the Post-It Note and other mainstays of Western civilization, but now their excellent materials scientists have been put to work creating a reflective foil that can be used to make the\u00a0 (already rather cheap) mirrors in solar thermal trough [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6398,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-535717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535717","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\/6398"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=535717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535717\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=535717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=535717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=535717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}