The Hottest 10 Startups To Watch In NYC This Year IDEO | A Design and Innovation Consulting Firm Edison Nation— Forums » Selling » MIke Keenan -better than nasa yet not a millionaire? Brendan, Part of the problem is companies have to see a savings or profit from an invention. This gentlemens product is a protector from fire. He will have to demonstate to companies how this benefits them financially to apply this to their product lines. At this moment he may have only demonstrated a product that is only going to add to their cost, not a savings. Generally it is the government that puts into place requirments and regulations for product safety. A couch company doesn’t care if a couch goes up in flames in two minutes, what they care about is how much is it going to cost them to use/license his product and by doing so, will it increase their profits. I wish him all the luck, God Speed.
d.school: Institute of Design at Stanford NIPC Inventors Club Continuum | The future. Made real. All solar efficiency breakthroughs since 1975 on a single chart The National Center for Photovoltaics (NCPV), which is part of the U.S. National Renewable Energy Lab (NREL), maintains a chart that shows efficiency records for all kinds of research solar technologies, from more vanilla to very exotic flavors (thin-film, single-junction cells, multi-junction cells, organic cells, quantum dot cells, etc). Above is the latest version as of April 2013. On it, you can see the steady pace of progress and how different solar cell compositions compare to each other. Of course, these record-breaking cells were probably very expensive to manufacture and made only in very small quantities, so don't expect to see efficiency numbers like these in commercial PV... The high-resolution version of the chart can be found here. Via National Center for Photovoltaics at NREL Note: There's no second slide.
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