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Alternative Energy - Friday, February 29, 2008

Bloo Solar Wins Grant For Solar Brush Tech

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Whether you get seed funding from angels or from the government, it shouldn't matter much. Sacramento's Bloo Solar (fka Q1 NanoSystems) has just won a $100K grant from the National Science Foundation for its solar brushes. Bloo’s Solar Brush is a ultra thin film solar photovoltaic product. The product is called a brush because it uses billions of vertically grown nano cables to improve the photovoltaic process. The firm says that each vertical nano bristle increases the total PV surface area by 700x over other thin film products on the market today. The company has a royalty share licensing deal with the University of California at Davis.

Founded 3 years ago, the company is forecasting commercialization of its technology in 2010, with an an initial 25-30 megawatt fab in California. The firm is led by John Argo, who was a product manager at HP.

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