electricity from sunlight...

Soon In Every Home In America?

By Jeff Siegel
| Monday, December 5th, 2011
Energy and Capital [eac-eletter@angelnexus.com]

Recently, I found myself racing toward a cab outside the AirTran terminal at Tampa International Airport...No baggage, no return ticket; just the clothes on my back, a digital camera, and a wrinkled piece of paper. If the address I scribbled down earlier that morning was right, 30 minutes later, I would be a witness to the impossible: A technological breakthrough so disruptive, it could single-handedly transform the world’s energy landscape forever

My name is Jeff Siegel. I’m the founder of the world’s first — and most successful — alternative energy research group.And through a stroke of luck, I can share with you an adventure that I believe could make anyone reading this short letter very, very rich.

Let me explain:

The Technology Shrouded in Secrecy

For several months, I tried contacting the office of a very high-tech company. Rumors spread that this outfit, located right outside Washington D.C., somehow unlocked one of the largest sources of energy anywhere on earth. Not in a lab at MIT… not on a deepwater rig… not buried beneath the sand of an OPEC nation… But in a tiny office building across the street from a Starbucks and a KFC near our nation’s capital.

To give you an idea of how much energy might be at this company's fingertips if the rumors were true — its systems could eventually capture more energy in a single month than Saudi Arabia will produce in the next 50 years! The breakthrough is what is called a solar window A "solar window" looks like a regular window you'd see in a typical office building. In fact, you can't tell the difference between the two... Except that this solar window contains a tiny film (sprayed on) that captures sunlight, converts it into energy, and uses the energy to heat or cool your room.

Now, I know what many of you are thinking...The solar industry is inherently plagued with problems:

• You need the sun’s direct rays to produce energy.
• Panels are bulky and need constant care.
• Installations are extremely expensive and time-consuming to build and install.
• They’re not efficient enough yet.

But that’s exactly what had me spending months trying to catch an inside peek at this company’s breakthrough. It literally conquered every obstacle in solar’s way - from efficiency, cost, and bulkiness to even needing sunlight! That’s right — this company claims it found a way around needing the sun’s rays. Needless to say, the rumors were more than enough to pique my interest... After all, if they were true, this tiny company could easily become the biggest blockbuster since Cisco. But every aspect of its cutting-edge technology was shrouded in secrecy. I couldn’t even get a straight answer from the administrative assistant on the company's business hours. Emails, letters, faxes, calls — all unanswered. If this company really could do what it claimed, it’s been kept under tighter wraps than the alien landing at Roswell.

I was beginning to have my doubts. I was about to toss it by the wayside — that is, until I came across an odd press release...

Apparently, one of the company's researchers would be holding an exclusive demonstration of their solar window inside a physics lab at a Florida university later that day.

The blurb was all I needed...

I didn’t care about credentials, how I would get into the building, or that I would stand out like a sore thumb, surrounded by physicists and faculty... I booked the first flight out of BWI, scribbled down the address, printed a map of campus, and grabbed my camera. It was a race against time. But if I made it, it would become perhaps the biggest blockbuster we'll see in our lifetime!

Witnessing the Impossible

The lab was standing room only. Physicists, company executives, a CNBC team, and a few “suspected buyers” gathered shoulder-to-shoulder around a bisected home in the center of a dark room. At first glance, it looked like any other scaled-down house; there were no rooftop panels, no wires, no tinted windows. But as the CEO explained shortly before the blinds went up, the windows were sprayed with the company’s one-of-a-kind solar formula. You couldn’t tell anything happened to them. They looked like regular windows you’d find on any house or office building. Then the curtains went up, and the sun’s rays hit the windows...

Immediately, lights inside the house turned on.

As far as regular expensive and boxy solar panels would be concerned, it was nothing special... Except that there were no panels. And as the CEO quickly demonstrated, his company’s spray-on solar cells weren’t only several times cheaper and able to be applied at room temperature to any window instantly… But this near-invisible solar spray is 300% more powerful than regular, expensive rooftop solar panels!

If that didn’t have the image of enormous profits flooding every mind in the room, they took it one step further... The blinds shut, cutting off all traces of sunlight, and the lights in the lab turned on. Somehow, the rays from the regular, incandescent bulbs were enough to still power lights for the house! As the CEO explained, these cells are also 1,000% more powerful at extracting energy from even artificial light sources — enough to keep power running on buildings from the glow of, say, street lights at nighttime...All from a material that could be sprayed on ANY window on ANY building — even at room temperature! I could hardly believe it. There I was, one of the first outsiders in the world to witness a technology so disruptive that it could, without any effort, radically change the global energy landscape. It had to be the same feeling other spectators felt when they viewed the first controlled nuclear reaction on the squash rackets court in Chicago in 1942, or how the five witnesses of the Wright brothers’ first flight in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina must have felt watching historical innovation unfold...Only this tiny company is on a much faster pace. The CEO shared with us that the company’s already beyond the lab. In fact, although it would be illegal to disclose who's interested, you got the feeling that major corporations were lining up to sign contracts.

And why wouldn’t they?!This company's groundbreaking solar spray could single-handedly eliminate a building or house’s electric bill! The invention is blockbuster. And it could literally change the way we use energy forever.

The Birth of a New Industry: Endless Energy

Even in the short time since the demonstration, many think this window will single-handedly transform the energy market, making electric utility companies nearly obsolete… similar to what the PC and Windows did to typewriter companies like Brother and Smith Corona.

You Must Erase "Alternative" from Alternative Energy

Let me dispel a myth: "Alternative" — as in alternative energy — is no longer alternative. It's mainstream. Check this out...In the past 12 months, FedEx, Staples, the Timberland Co., and corporate behemoth Wal-Mart have begun installing solar panels at their stores and facilities. Now listen, I don't want you to be disillusioned... These companies aren't installing solar panels because they've suddenly become concerned with global warming; they've installed solar panels because it'll reduce their electric bills by as much as 60% each month. That's what's driving the boom in solar energy. And it’s a boom that hasn’t looked back!

In fact, when I attended the first Solar Power Conference and Expo in Washington, D.C., there were only eight journalists taking notes.Eight… for a nationwide conference! There was such little interest in solar at the time that we all fit comfortably in a makeshift room in the basement of the Hyatt Regency Hotel. Now, It’s an industry that’s captured the entire planet!

Solar’s Now Affordable!

When most people think about solar, they envision photovoltaic devices (PV). This is what a typical photovoltaic installation looks like:

During the energy crisis of the 1970s, serious interest in solar technology took hold in the United States. But due to prohibitive prices, large scale applications were nearly impossible. However, starting in 2005 (when oil started trading above $60 a barrel) interest in solar rapidly returned... only this time, PV was becoming more cost effective. In 1976, the average selling price per watt was about $100. Today it's significantly less. And it’s plummeting by the month. With such a drastic reduction in price — coupled with the ever-increasing price of oil — it's no wonder both residential and industrial consumers are starting to flock toward solar alternatives. Since 2001, the global photovoltaic market has averaged a 40% annual growth.And thanks to this new company’s new spray-on solar film, that number’s about to launch even higher!

A Solar Window in Every Home

Standard solar panels have been extremely expensive to construct and install — until now. To top it off, they’re still not as efficient as they could be. And they still have to be manufactured in very expensive, high-tech, climate-controlled labs...In other words, they can’t be readily applied to just any glass surface or rooftop on the spot. They need to be integrated to the complete construction of a new building. Don’t get me wrong; these companies are still claiming massive gains in growth and popularity.

But these gains are peanuts compared to what we're now starting to see in a new, burgeoning sector of the solar market called Building Integrated Photovoltaics (BIPV). BIPV integrates the process for energy generation technology into building design and materials. With BIPV, solar power elements actually become part of the building. Industry experts agree that the use of BIPV technologies could provide a massive opportunity for rapid and wide-scale adoption of solar technologies... which will essentially help lead to overall growth in the solar market. One of the major players in the BIPV game right now is Sharp Corporation. Sharp is the biggest manufacturer in the world of integrated solar roofing panels.

Both aesthetically pleasing and completely functional, here's an example of what a typical integrated solar roofing panel looks like:

As you can see, the solar panels actually become a part of the construction, as opposed to something added on later... And that’s one drawback of most BIPV plans — it needs to be on a new project.

Window to The Future

Since the inception of the modern solar industry, the primary goals have focused on improving the efficiency of solar while placing much less effort into the design of new applications. However, the company I'm going to tell you about in my report, "A Solar Window in Every Home," believes the application of solar technology could actually provide more value and return than simply striving to improve efficiencies alone. You see, thanks to the ingenious design, this company’s market is virtually unlimited...

1. They can go out to ANY home or office building and apply — on site — their solar formula to start generating power for the building or household immediately.
2. There’s no waiting for custom glass or specific dimensions of a window or shingle, which drastically reduces the cost of installation and development...
3. On top of that, the solar technology used is 300% more efficient than leading rooftop panels.
4. And the icing on the cake, as was also demonstrated in front of my very eyes: These solar cells are capable of generating electricity even from artificial light sources!

Imagine having a building in a city that can draw some extra power, simply because it is next to a street light on a sidewalk...

Management at this solar window company believes the wide-scale use of its power-generating platform will make solar energy economically feasible, and provide an opportunity for the solar energy market to explode — especially considering that this company can apply their solar cells on buildings and skyscrapers that are decades old! In fact, its market is the five million buildings and more than 80 million detached homes that are already built.

And it is this premise that provides the backbone of the company's Solar Glass technology.

The company focuses on the development of very thin (1/10 the thickness of other company’s “films”), semi-transparent spray that creates large-area solar structures that you can see through. This semi-transparency makes the glazing desirable for placing over glass, plastics, and other see-through structures. As you could imagine, this invention represents a new breed of solar cell design that balances solar efficiencies and lower manufacturing costs with near-limitless applications. Today, the use of architectural glass and transparent plastics is staggering in scope; the worldwide market for this company now reaches into the hundreds of billions. Energy-producing glazing applied to the windows of these commercial and industrial buildings provides the opportunity for huge benefits as a competitive alternative to non-energy producing windows. The electrical power generated can be used to run building systems and reduce dependency on grid-based power supplies. Builders and manufacturers of building products already use glass, plastic, and other materials... So they may be especially attracted to the economic benefits of using the same materials to produce energy while continuing to function as window, display, or facade surfaces.

As I already mentioned, my name is Jeff Siegel and I'm the publisher of Green Chip Stocks, the first independent investment research service focused exclusively on alternative energy markets. Now, I've been in the financial research business for more than 16 years. I've watched the economy boom and bust. I've seen the world embrace the dot-com craze, only to watch it come crashing down. I've seen the real estate market explode, and then implode. I've seen collapses and recoveries...

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