Inventor Dave Mashayamombe is developing flexible solar panels built into artificial, life-sized vegetation manufactured from recycled tires, used plastics, and other recycled materials. The idea of applying solar panels onto other objects is not entirely new. Some have already suggested surrounding President Trump's proposed border wall with solar panels. Last week, a consortium of 27 engineers and scientists from a dozen U.S. universities delivered a plan for it to Congress.
This sector is directed towards thin film photovoltaics, but does not include perovskite, organic, or nuclear photovoltaics or photoelectrochemical technologies.
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This sector is directed towards thin film photovoltaics, but does not include perovskite, organic, or nuclear photovoltaics or photoelectrochemical technologies.