The Switch! Project

Switch! examines the presence and use of energy on a neighborhood, community, and citywide basis. Thus, it shifts away from the design of product interfaces and interactions in the home to forms that have a wider presence in the local and public space.

We continue to explore how design might enable people to relate more deeply and in an ongoing manner to energy use, but at an expanded scale- considering household-household, building-building, neighborhood-neighborhood interactions. To approach this, design must be extended beyond discrete people-product interactions to make visible and tangible the connection to wider-scale and longer-term interactions making up a locality, community, and society.

For further background: www.tii.se/switch, www.tii.se/static, www.tii.se/aware

Objectives

▪ promote the rational uses of energy;
▪ promote renewable energy;
▪ provide and disseminate energy information;
▪ protect the environment;
▪ reduce waste of energy in all sectors of society;

Saturday, April 12, 2008

Organic photovoltaics

plastics for energy from light

Government and the private sector earmarking 360 million euros for technology initiative,

The advantages of organic photovoltaic materials will provide opportunities for enormous cost savings in the manufacturing process and completely new product visions:

- transparent photovoltaics which could be applied to windows or casings,
- photovoltaics on a roll which could be produced for application to large surfaces,
- integrated photovoltaics through which every electronic device could have its own integrated power supply thanks to new kinds of solar cells.

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