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The US-based Corporation Solopower offers elastic photovoltaic modules. Low weight and easy to mount, these modules are perfect for bent hall roofs.  Thanks to a newly copper-indium-gallium-selenid-composition (CIGS) the efficiency is up to 19.9 %.

Some possible fields of application:

• bent facades
• roofs
• balloons/airships
• airplanes
• bags and backpacks
• tents/camping
• busses, trucks and cars
• Laptop cases
• foldable universal modules

Maybe in the near future one can use such solar modules instead of foil to darken the car’s windows, who knows?

Nearly silently the Fraunhofer ICT developes a storing technique which, at least in stationary range, cab replace conventional Lead-Acid-Batteries: The Redoxflow-Battery. For that two liquid electrolytes flow through a membrane and generate electric power. The amount of  stored energy depends on the size of the tanks. So it is easy scalable.

Combined with solar panels on the roof of a House or a wind generator, can so a autonomous power supply be realized.But also linked to a power network can these accus deliver their stored energy over decades to the network. So can for example the morning-peaks be absorbed and following the power plants dimensioned smaller.

In the meantime even a use in electric cars is thinkable.

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