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18.01.2022

The US company Ubiquitous Energy has received funding for a project to develop green windows that can provide buildings with green energy. The organization received $70 million from investors.

Ubiquitous Energy wants to do its part to save the planet from global warming through innovative green energy mining methods. So, to power skyscrapers, the company plans to cover the windows of urban buildings with an additional layer that can process solar energy into electricity. The thickness of such a layer is only a few nanometers, and small wires connect the entire system to electrical appliances.

According to company director Susan Stone, the money received will go to the final preparation of the product to enter the market. "In the future, we will be able to make French windows (windows to the floor). We will turn skyscrapers into vertical solar farms," Stone said. By early 2024, the organization plans to launch large-scale production. In addition to office buildings, Ubiquitous Energy also focuses on residential buildings.

New glasses have a minus - the price. Coated windows will cost 30 percent more than normal windows. However, the manufacturer and investors rely on the urgent need to solve the problem of global warming, hoping that this factor will increase demand for the product. As solar panels, Ubiquitous Energy windows also perform worse than traditional competitors - they are 50 percent less efficient. This is due to their position in space: less sunlight falls on a vertical surface than on a horizontal one.

“But we made a useful surface that did not generate energy at all. Glass was always passive, and we made it active,” Stone commented on the problem.

China has also made a bet on solar energy in the fight against climate change. The country's government is actively financing the construction of new plants for the production of polysilicon, a material used to make photovoltaic cells for solar panels. Thus, it is planned to reduce the cost of producing batteries and increase the pace of implementation of projects in the field of renewable energy sources.

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