Solar Power May Be Getting More Flexible A solar panel and a
yoga mat not often appear in the same sentence. But future solar
panels have been compared to mats as a new technology promises
to deliver amazing flexibility and efficiency within five years.
According to a report on Boston.com, MicroContinuum, a company
based in Cambridge, is developing in partnership with three
universities what it calls ‘nantennas’, which are designed to
collect more solar power than existing solar cells. What the
company envisages is a thin, flexible sheet that is cheap to
produce. “Imagine a roll-up sheet, like a yoga mat, that you can
toss over any structure, or roof tiles whose outermost layers
are laced with nantennas”, the website wrote. According to the
University of Missouri, one of the partners, they would be able
to collect 90 percent of available light. “Our overall goal is
to collect and utilize as much solar energy as is theoretically
possible and bring it to the commercial market in an inexpensive
package that is a