Fexible solar panels?

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Id like solar panels that one could actually roll up
and easy to transport that way. paper thin.

Such a thing exist yet?

 

[Al]

I saw some just the other day. I went for a ride on the SolarSailor (a
hybrid sail / pv-electric / gas turbine-electric 100-seat ferry-boat) on
Sydney harbour (Australia). They have traditional pv array on the boat's
fixed deck surfaces, but the sails have flexible solar array built into the
sail structure. These panels are both flexible, and of a "buried contact"
design meaning no metal strips across the pv cell => higher output. See
either solarsailor.com or solarsailor.com.au (can't remember which).

hth
Al

 

[Protagonist]

Id like solar panels that one could actually roll up
and easy to transport that way. paper thin.

Such a thing exist yet?

Yes, has been around.
Amorphous technology, where the silicon is sprayed on thin, flexible
metal sheet, rather than grown.
Not as efficient as christaline silicon.
JS

 

[Roland Mösl]

Id like solar panels that one could actually roll up

and easy to transport that way. paper thin.

Such a thing exist yet?

As a part of a waterproof foil for roofs

http://live.pege.org/2006-intersolar-roof/photovoltaic-on-role.htm

Flexible photovoltaic from Sharp

http://car.pege.org/2005-solarexpo/bendable-photovoltaic.htm

As a foldable photovoltaic for the backpack
Sorry, just right now only german page

http://notebook.pege.org/2005-photovoltaik

 

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As a part of a waterproof foil for roofs

http://live.pege.org/2006-intersolar-roof/photovoltaic-on-role.htm

Flexible photovoltaic from Sharp

http://car.pege.org/2005-solarexpo/bendable-photovoltaic.htm

As a foldable photovoltaic for the backpack
Sorry, just right now only german page

http://notebook.pege.org/2005-photovoltaik

very cool stuff!

 

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There's foldable ones:

http://www.powerfilmsolar.com/products/military/foldables/60wtechdata.html

Expensive, about twice the price per watt compared to conventional
solar panels

very very cool!

thanks for that link!

 

[Roland Mösl]

http://notebook.pege.org/2005-photovoltaik

very cool stuff!

I just started to translate this site to English.
I started with this article

http://laptop.pege.org/2005-photovoltaic

 

[Roland Mösl]

There's foldable ones:

http://www.powerfilmsolar.com/products/military/foldables/60wtechdata.html

Expensive, about twice the price per watt compared to conventional
solar panels

I contacted them yesterday at their contact form on the web site,
but no anwser.

Do they really sell it?

 

[Roland Mösl]

My company, Global Solar Energy makes "flexible" solar panels that can
be folded to fit in a backpack. Several sizes are available from 5
Watts to 55 Watts. We used to make a rollable panel, but if rolled to
tightly it would be damaged, and it was hard to control how tightly the
customer would roll it. Check
www.globalsolar.com

How much would be the 30 or 48 Watt panel?

What delivery time?

Available in Europe?

I am just using
http://laptop.pege.org/2005-photovoltaic

but this moduls are sometimes not available