Now I really don’t know how one would breath to their professor that your idea for a cheap solution to solar power cost reduction and widespread adoption, especially if your a female science PhD student is a process combining a ink jet printer, pizza oven and nail polish. But apparently that’s exactly what 23 year old Nicole Kuepper’s iJET is. The iJET does away with the pricey clean rooms and high temperature ovens that are required by traditional solar panel manufacturing plants
The concept according to The Australian is estimated at going commercial in the next 5 years and with its low cost and basic development practice should make for a demanding environment for them to sell it in both developed and third world countries from Africa to the Outer Banks rentals latest upgrades, who knows how far the breakthrough in photovoltaic by this 23 year old woman from the University of NSW might reach once it goes commercial.
Source: TreeHugger
