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	Solar Shingles

Socratoad

10-11-2009 9:03 PM

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10-12-2009 11:37 AM

kkcapricorn

This is awesome. I so wish I could afford it.

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/cecfd2fe-7999-42a9-9d60-d266f147dbf7/53F0B1AA-B2B4-4985-9057-C0AAAC9A71DD/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://blog.cleantechies.com/2009/10/09/dow-unveils-solar-roof-shingles/" href="http://blog.cleantechies.com/2009/10/09/dow-unveils-solar-roof-shingles/" style="font-size: 11px;">blog.cleantechies.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blog.cleantechies.com/2009/10/09/dow-unveils-solar-roof-shingles/"><P><IMG alt="solarshingle" src="http://blog.cleantechies.com/files/2009/10/solarshingle.JPG" class="alignleft size-full wp-image-7084" />Dow Chemical has developed <A target="_blank" href="http://greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/07/dow-unveils-solar-shingles/">a roof shingle that contains thin-film solar power cells</A> and can be integrated into asphalt roofs, which are used in 90 percent of American homes.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blog.cleantechies.com/2009/10/09/dow-unveils-solar-roof-shingles/"><P>Dow executives said the solar shingles can be handled like a regular asphalt shingle and can be nailed right onto a roof and walked on by roofers.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blog.cleantechies.com/2009/10/09/dow-unveils-solar-roof-shingles/"><P><SPAN id="more-7064"></SPAN>By 2015, Dow estimates that the market for the solar shingles could be $5 billion a year as builders increasingly make the solar roofs standard on new construction.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blog.cleantechies.com/2009/10/09/dow-unveils-solar-roof-shingles/"><P>The thin-film solar cells, made by Global Solar of Tucson, are less efficient than traditional photovoltaic arrays, but a Dow researcher that with the solar shingles covering large portions of a roof they could meet 40 to 80 percent of a homeowner’s electricity demand.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blog.cleantechies.com/2009/10/09/dow-unveils-solar-roof-shingles/"><P>Electricians are not needed to install the solar shingles but do have to connect the completed array to the home’s electrical system.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/53F0B1AA-B2B4-4985-9057-C0AAAC9A71DD/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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