{"id":180376,"date":"2024-01-12T22:26:18","date_gmt":"2024-01-13T04:26:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/solar-paint-technology-could-be-cheaper-alternative-to-panels-billions-of-light-sensitive-particles-are-mixed-in"},"modified":"2024-01-12T22:26:18","modified_gmt":"2024-01-13T04:26:18","slug":"solar-paint-technology-could-be-cheaper-alternative-to-panels-billions-of-light-sensitive-particles-are-mixed-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/solar-paint-technology-could-be-cheaper-alternative-to-panels-billions-of-light-sensitive-particles-are-mixed-in","title":{"rendered":"Solar paint\u2019 technology could be cheaper alternative to panels: \u2018Billions of light-sensitive particles [are] mixed in"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/solar-paint-technology-could-be-cheaper-alternative-to-panels-billions-of-light-sensitive-particles-are-mixed-in2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Solar panels are already an affordable energy solution since they generate enough power over their lifetimes to pay for themselves and then some. However, they do take some investment up front, and some people (and homeowners associations) dislike the way they look.<\/p>\n<p>So what if you could get that power to make electricity from sunlight without having to install <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecooldown.com\/solar-panels\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"25\" title=\"Solar Panels\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">solar panels<\/a>? That\u2019s the beauty of solar paint, as <a href=\"https:\/\/solaractionalliance.org\/solar-paint\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reported<\/a> by Solar Action Alliance.<\/p>\n<p>The idea behind <a href=\"https:\/\/understandsolar.com\/solar-paint\/#:~:text=The%20basic%20idea%20is%20that, found%20all%20over%20the%20earth.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">solar paint<\/a> (aka photovoltaic paint) is simple: It\u2019d be like ordinary paint but with billions of light-sensitive particles mixed in, as Understand Solar notes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Solar panels are already an affordable energy solution since they generate enough power over their lifetimes to pay for themselves and then some. However, they do take some investment up front, and some people (and homeowners associations) dislike the way they look. So what if you could get that power to make electricity from sunlight [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,1633,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-180376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics","category-solar-power","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180376","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180376\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}