| Sometime within the next decade your electric company might very well be a thing of the past. Imagine being completely off of the grid, no need for ugly power lines, power outages during a storm, or an ever rising electric bill. Instead you simply paint your house with a photovoltaic paint! Scientists are currently developing just such a thing. Using a combination of a plastic composite and nano-carbon tubes this photovoltaic paint converts the suns energy into electricity. In fact these nano-solar cells can actually harness the suns infra-red rays and could one day be up to 5 times more efficient than current solar cells. This is not a pipe dream, nor is it a technology so far away that we’ll never see it. This is a current reality that will most likely be available to the public within the next decade. In fact the only thing left with this technology to perfect is the ability to get the nano-cells to correctly align themselves to allow an efficient flow between cells. And this is perfectly workable problem. 5 years from now you may very well take a trip down to the hardware store and buy some of this photovoltaic paint, spray your home with it, and never pay an electric bill again! And the technology doesn’t end there, in fact you could coat your jacket with these nano-cells and recharge your cell phone. Or your hybrid car could come painted with these cells to help recharge your battery. Pretty much anything you could spray with this paint you could turn into an electricity producing power plant. The next few years will definitely be exciting as new technology such as this unfolds and completely revolutionizes our world.
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