Plastics creating electricity

As Doug Smock, the article's author, notes, "Although organic photovoltaics have been around for 20 years, they still represent close to zero percent of global energy production. But conductive plastics are considered an important part of the world's energy future because the cost of electricity from silicon photovoltaics is very high-roughly 10 times higher than fossil fuels such as coal and oil.

There probably will be plenty of room for growth in several new photovoltaic technologies. In 2010, global cumulative installed photovoltaic (PV) capacity grew by 40%, with compounded annual growth forecast at 20%."

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