Nanosolar Promo Youtube Video

[MitchJi]

Hi,

Impressive!

Via Treehugger:
http://www.treehugger.com/files/200...cy-germany-factory-mass-production.php?page=2

Nanosolar 640MW Robotic Factory in Germany
The first piece of news from Nanosolar concerns a solar panel factory in Germany with a capacity of 640MW/year. The fully-automated facility is located in Luckenwalde near Berlin, and its inauguration was attended by Germany's Minister of the Environment and the Governor of the State of Brandenburg, among others.

The 640 megawatts per year number if reached when the factory is operated 24/7 at the rate of 1 solar panel every 10 seconds (!). Nanosolar has also announced that serial production in its San Jose, California, cell production factory commenced earlier this year and that production would be ramping up to meet the $4.1 billion in contracts that they already have.

Here's a promo video by Nanosolar that shows - among others things - the "continuous flow printing process", the robotic factory in Germany, and even a jar of the famous nanoparticle solar ink:

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Panels Designed for Utility-Scale Usage
The third bit of news from Nanosolar is about how the solar cells that they make are packaged into panels. Nanosolar claims that their "Utility Panel" is the "industry's first solar electricity panel specifically designed and developed for utility-scale solar power system deployment." The advantages it has are:

- Electrically, it is the industry's highest-current thin panel, by as much as a factor of six. It is also the industry's first photovoltaic module certified by TUV for a system voltage of 1500V, or 50% higher than the previously highest certified. Together this enables utility-scale panel array lengths and results in a host of substantial cost savings during the deployment of solar power plants.

- Mechanically, the package used for the panel is distinctly stronger than that of conventional thin-film-on-glass modules, achieving almost twice the mounting span and thus substantially lower mounting cost.