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Imagine what you might do if you could print your own solar panels. That’s kind of the dream behind Shawn Frayne and Alex Hornstein’s Solar Pocket Factory — although they see it more as the “microbrewery” of panel production rather than a tool for everyone’s garage. With over $70,000 of backing from a successful Kickstarter campaign, the inventors are now working on refining the prototype. If all goes well, by April they’ll have a machine that can spit out a micro solar panel every few seconds. In the meantime, Frayne stopped by Flora Lichtman’s backyard with a few pieces of the prototype to explain how the mini-factory will work.
The inimitable Rev. Billy Talen sees change a’comin’. Hallelujah. Changealujah. Sandylujah!
That could become the next cool hobby for people to come with home-grown renewable energy solutions. If they can make systems for creating things like this at a cost average people can afford, it could really take off.