The Solterra website is "Solterra Solar Cells dot com" because the company wants to concentrate on making the high-value solar cell
rather than the outer low-value high-maintenance casing, enclosure or cover, the "panel". This adaptability frees up a profit area for the installer to choose the right outer cover for the installation. It makes the solar cell able to be used in more situations and Solterra maximizes its production speed by not having to "finish" the end product solar panel and can do what it does best, make solar cells. Transportation costs are logistics are greatly reduced.
Solterra says on it's home page-
Solterra Renewable Technologies Inc. is singularly positioned to lead the development of truly sustainable and cost-effective solar technology as the first company to introduce a new dimension of cost reduction by replacing silicon wafer based solar cells with low cost highly efficient Quantum Dot based solar cells.
This theme is the mission statement and is on every PR.
We know that Solterra has dramatically reduced the cost of
Quantum Dots while increasing both the quality, with 90+%
conversion (meaning completely formed Tetrapod QD) and the yet unstated "higher efficiency". A Patent has been applied for the new process which reduces costs 200 percent over past methods, and a mass production method has resulted in the offer for sale of TQD. The higher efficiency is a result of the CdSe Tetrapod having some unique abilities. First, it is one of the best QD
in MEG - Multiple Exciton Generation, which can take one photon
and convert it into up to 7 electrons, or so. Second, the TQD has a wider spectral range, including infrared and UV giving it superior low-light and even nighttime energy absorption capabilities.
We know that Solterra has a Professor Jabbour, one of the foremost experts on solar flexible displays and much more.
We know Solterra will be using advanced inkjet printing, a
much less expensive solar cell manufacturing method.
When you combine low cost quantum dots ( the most expensive
part of the solar cell) with low cost flexible cell materials
and a low cost printing process, you get the most inexpensive
solar cell, and one capable of being manufactured by the
Gigawatt, like the US Treasury prints hundred dollar bills.
From Solterra's website-
By applying this proprietary, low cost production technology to the manufacture of Q.D.'s and applying it to Solar Energy Cells, the cost of solar generated electricity is reduced to little more than grid price at today's electricity prices…and with Grid prices expected to increase by more than 50% over the next five years, energy using the Quantum Dot Technology will not only cost less but can also be good for the environment!
Solterra is stating that the low cost will compete with grid parity, the cost of electricity from the local Power Company.
If that is true, Solterra product will be substantially lower priced than its solar industry competition.
I think there will be some surprise features, too, although
everyone will be very happy just to see what I have described
above.
Puravida19
AI
