Researchers at MIT (see post below) His group uses an organic solar concentrator, as reported on in Science. “Light is collected over a large area [like a window] and gathered, or concentrated, at the edges,” explains Baldo. As a result, rather than covering a roof MIT’s solar concentrator entails a mixture of two or more Similar solar concentrators were developed in the 1970s by Says Jon Mapel, an MIT research team member:
MIT’s solar concentrator improves on concentrators in use today. Baldo notes,
Baldo says his team still needs to improve the concentrator’s In addition to Jon Mapel, Baldo’s research team also includes Mapel, Currie and Goffri have started a company, Covalent Solar, to develop and commercialize the new technology. Earlier this year Covalent Solar won two prizes in the MIT $100K Entrepreneurship Competition. The company placed first in the Energy category ($20,000) and won the Audience Judging Award ($10,000). |