Atlas City Project

www.physorg.com/news199962208.html

Increases solar efficiency by 3x
and utilizes heat for more efficiency.

i think this could be quite useful for atlas city

Roofing with solar built in:

www.whirlwindsteel.com/pub/Solar

More efficient and flexible photovoltaics.

www.technologyreview.com/energy/19044/

Solar panels that work at night

www.gizmag.com/researchers-developing-solar-technology-that-works-at-night/8574/

Claim 85% efficiency

www.overunity.com/index.php?topic=7995.0
www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2010/02/15/2818151.htm
www.gizmag.com/researchers-developing-solar-technology-that-works-at-night/8574
www.inl.gov/pdfs/nantenna.pdf

Claims to capture 90% of sunlight

www.maximumpc.com/article/news/researchers_claim_new_solar_panel_can_collect_90_sunlight_from_any_angle
www.engadget.com/2010/02/28/caltech-gurus-whip-up-highly-efficient-low-cost-flexible-solar/
grantlawrence.blogspot.com/2010/02/solar-cells-breakthrough-150th-cost-90.html

More links from the Oversight Committee. Make your own solar tiles.

www.solideas.com/solrcell/english.html

This is a fascinating way to generate power via the solar route - and it is demonstrably viable in certain areas/climates like the Aussie outback or the U.S. southwest - solar towers with integrated wind driven turbines. This could really work. Now if our stupid congress would stop pissing away money on BS and just throw a billion or two (hey, just print it up Obama, you've already got the presses runnin'!) we may be able to see this as a reality in the near future:

www.enviromission.com.au/EVM/content/home.html

Be sure to watch this cool rendition:

www.enviromission.com.au/irm/content/images/videos/SolarTower_Animation_Metric.wmv

Really neat designs. Of course, having a 1000 meter solar tower is a bit out of budget and space requirements

Yes, BUT - the pilot to proof of concept tower was built in Spain and showed that it actually works - and it was SMALL compared to this mammoth tower! So the towers can be scaled depending on how much power is needed for a given location. Not practical in some areas, but definitely for places like the Aussie outback or U.S. Southwest, etc.