{"id":144906,"date":"2022-08-26T16:24:03","date_gmt":"2022-08-26T21:24:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/3d-printed-solar-cells-are-cheaper-easier-to-produce-and-deployable-at-speed"},"modified":"2022-08-26T16:24:03","modified_gmt":"2022-08-26T21:24:03","slug":"3d-printed-solar-cells-are-cheaper-easier-to-produce-and-deployable-at-speed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/3d-printed-solar-cells-are-cheaper-easier-to-produce-and-deployable-at-speed","title":{"rendered":"3D-printed solar cells are cheaper, easier to produce, and deployable at speed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5evOIe4IvP8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>99 percent of the panels were made of PET.<\/p>\n<p>Do you remember the solar panels that Prof. Paul Dastoor from the University of New Castle and his team produced with a 3D printer? If you don\u2019t, it\u2019s an evergreen story worth remembering. Let\u2019s dive in\u2026<\/p>\n<p>3D printing is a major asset for the energy industry. Four years ago, light-weight, ultra-flexible, recyclable, and inexpensive solar panels came to light by Dastoor and his team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>99 percent of the panels were made of PET. Do you remember the solar panels that Prof. Paul Dastoor from the University of New Castle and his team produced with a 3D printer? If you don\u2019t, it\u2019s an evergreen story worth remembering. Let\u2019s dive in\u2026 3D printing is a major asset for the energy industry. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1489,1633,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-144906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3d-printing","category-solar-power","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144906\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}