U.S. institutions thin film solar cell market forecast lowered
U.S. institutions thin film solar cell market forecast lowered
The United States recently released a market research firm forecasts show that thin film solar cells by 2015 the global market of 140 million U.S. dollars. And the agency in July of this year's forecast of 200 billion U.S. dollars.
U.S. market research firm NanoMarkets thin film solar cells listed in the market's anxiety factors include: the decline in oil prices, the use of solar energy as an alternative to the overall weaker demand; shortage of silicon raw materials as the solution to silicon than crystalline silicon solar cells using the less thin-film solar cells as a selling point of the growth has slowed down; the operating environment, resulting solar cell manufacturers to reduce R & D investment. To this end, the company's forecast for 2009 market growth to slow in 2010, again entered a rapid growth path until 2011.
However, in the long run, lightweight, low-cost thin film solar cell market will continue to grow. "The current situation, the cost of thin film battery can be greatly reduced, than the average silicon, polycrystalline silicon solar cell two-thirds. Therefore, this thin film photovoltaic cells power plant built in the future will be more competitive and easier to browse the Internet generation. "Jiangsu Province, Professor Wei Qidong, secretary general of Energy Research, told reporters.
Wuhan University, developed a low-cost nickel-based fuel cells
"The United States National Academy of Sciences," published an article saying that, from Wuhan University research team created a membrane with alkaline fuel cell, reducing the precious metal materials required for this battery is expected to reduce costs. Fuel cell uses fuel to produce electricity. Currently, almost all use the acid fuel cell membrane, but that means the battery components to be associated with platinum and other precious metals or the rare metal.
Chemistry and Molecular Sciences, Wuhan University School of Chuang Lin and colleagues said in the article, they successfully used silver and nickel to produce a fuel cell membrane, allowing the fuel cell using nickel-platinum instead of expensive and scarce, thereby reducing costs.
The article said: "Although the battery power output is not high, but the researchers think that this is the first step in low-cost fuel cells."
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