Stan Ovshinsky Solar Panels

Invented by ecd ovonics co founder stan ovshinsky thin film laminates offer several advantages over crystalline pv panels.

Stan ovshinsky solar panels.

To drive the unsubsidized cost of solar power below that of coal to create in effect a moore s law for energy. Pursuing solar electricity at a cost equal to or lower than that of coal electricity may 2011 vol. Before carrying the product i actually went out to visit the thin film manufacturing plant in troy michigan and was able to met the thomas edison of our time the owner stan ovshinsky ovonics. The panel was used to charge a battery to power an apple iic portable computer.

Stan ovshinsky s solar revolution strategy business spring 2011. While coal mining reigned supreme ovshinsky was pondering ways to harness power from the sun and in 1979 began streamlining the mass production of inexpensive solar panels u s. Now at age 88 he has formed ovshinsky solar a company with an audacious goal. Photo courtesy of lillian hoddeson and peter garrett ovshinsky planned to develop the ovitron further but the settlement terms of a lawsuit with a former partner prevented him from using the same materials or design.

Ovshinsky innovation lives again. Tell me why every single rooftop in the world is not covered with these. With 400 patents spanning a 50 year career stan ovshinsky together with his wife iris developed an array of energy and information related inventions that advanced many technologies and industries all in pursuit of a vision of a hydrogen based economy. In a converted barn stan ovshinsky third from left and his crew pose with his newly invented benjamin automatic lathe in 1946.

Worked great and made the trip to base camp rolled up in a mailing tube. Signs of hope the new york times magazine november 24 2009. The automatic response to a man late in his ninth decade announcing such an objective is disbelief perhaps tinged with amusement.