As solar cell tests continue, company lines up first users
Snowpeak Energy Inc. is nearing a milepost in its battle to bring to market a solar cell one-tenth the size of existing solar-cell products with 10 times the power.
Working from suites at Airport Gardens in Reno, Chief Executive Officer Dick Kelsey and James Parker, the company’s chief science officer, test models both in the lab and in the sun — on the building’s roof.
They’re experimenting with a lens array, solar cells tilted an angles to more efficiently capture the sun’s energy.
They expect to have a prototype of their Suncatcher in another two months, says Kelsey. The selling point: “Amortized over 10 years, we’ll be less expensive than the power company.”
Parker, who holds a doctorate in computing science, acknowledges the math is difficult, and the product hasn’t made it out of the lab. Read full story:
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