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I thought your post asked the most important questions.

NENE is so cool because the obvious worldwide market is so huge and in so much need.

It seems to me that a skyscraper's building management company would want a solar energy source that works in the shade on the northern side of a building that could power it's lighting and HVAC systems. Energy is their single highest expense.

Considering the utility costs to run those buildings, the price differential and payback must not be attractive enough between NENE solar windows and regular skyscraper glass since not a single construction company has adopted the product.

I'll let the building and building management market shake this out before I invest.


That said, part of what makes this so interesting to me is how new getting to commercialization really is.

NENE has me very excited because of what comes up when you google the subject.

https://www.google.com/#q=solar+powered+windows

There are few commercial manufacturers on the cusp of actually selling the product other than NENE. One is in Israel and one in Germany.

The search primarily comes up with research articles only dating back to 2011 including from MIT and Yale.

This is a very new technology with no market leader. NENE isn't trying to go up against a goliath. They stand to gain significant market share from the moment it becomes commercially viable.

This is from an article reprinted in a Yale publication in 2011.


“The challenge is whether you can get the cost down and the electricity generation up,” says Sarah Kurtz, a scientist with the U.S. government’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) in Colorado. “There are lots of different schemes and strategies, and creativity will be the name of the game. If you can get the cost to the place where those windows don’t really cost any more than conventional windows, it obviously makes sense to go ahead and have your windows generate electricity.”