HyperSolar, has made a breakthrough in magnification of light on their solar panels, resulting in an increase in solar energy output. They plan to take the 1 cm thick solar product and place then right on top of existing, and aging, flat solar panels. The purposed increase of light magnification, 400%, reduces the number of solar cells inside of a panel which in turn reduces the cost. Though, I would wager that people would want to put the HyperSolar panels next to existing one. Even the smaller amount of energy from the old equipment is a little bit more you could harvest.
Tim Young, CEO of hyper solar, touts the new product, "Unlike current concentrated photovoltaic solutions that require bulky mirrors or lenses and sun tracking mechanisms, the HyperSolar concentrator will be a thin and flat self-tracking solar concentrator that conventional solar manufacturers can use in conventional flat solar panels. A HyperSolar concentrator is a concentrator like no other with a multi-billion square feet opportunity. Every square foot of solar panel demand is an opportunity to reduce the number of expensive solar cells by incorporating a square foot of HyperSolar."
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