{"id":14484,"date":"2007-08-20T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-19T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bio-based.eu\/news\/index.php?startid=20070820-05n"},"modified":"2007-08-20T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2007-08-19T22:00:00","slug":"bioplastic-as-backing-material-for-solar-cells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/bioplastic-as-backing-material-for-solar-cells\/","title":{"rendered":"Bioplastic as backing material for solar cells"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.biosolar.com\/\" >BioSolar<\/a>, developer of a technology to produce bioplastic materials from renewable plant sources that will reduce the cost of solar cells, provides a look at the company\u2019s plans to develop and market its bio-based plastic solar cell backing material. BioSolar\u2019s new products will be able to be used as the backing material for all solar cells, whether manufactured utilizing industry standard technology, or new &#8220;thin film&#8221; technologies.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Today, petroleum-based plastics are used in the production of virtually all solar cells and modules. However, the cost of these plastics has been steadily increasing due to rising oil prices, which runs counter to the industry\u2019s effort to further cost reductions to make solar energy competitive with conventional fossil fuel. Furthermore, petroleum-based plastics are not environmentally neutral,&#8221; said Dr. David Lee, president and CEO, adding, &#8220;BioSolar\u2019s new tough bioplastic will be able to offer the durability and environmental characteristics of conventional petroleum-based plastics, and at the same time helps to reduce the cost of solar cells.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Click <a href=\"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/news-images\/20070820-05\/Bio_Solar.pdf\" >here<\/a> for the press release as PDF-document.<\/p>\n<p><b>Contact<\/b><br \/>BioSolar, Inc.<br \/>27936 Lost Canyon Road, Suite 202<br \/>Santa Clarita, CA 91387, U.S.<br \/>Tel.: 001-661-251-00 01<br \/>Fax: 001-661-251-00 03<br \/>E-mail: <a href=\"mailto:info@biosolar.com\">info@biosolar.com<\/a><br \/>Internet: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.biosolar.com\/\" >www.biosolar.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>(Cf. news of <a href=\"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/oil-prices-interest-in-bioplastics-grow\/\" >2007-05-26<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/umfassende-studie-zu-weltweit-erhaeltlichen-biologisch-abbaubaren-kunststoffen-und-biokunststoffen-veroeffentlicht\/\" >2006-09-13<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><b>BioSolar, developer of a technology to produce bioplastic materials from renewable plant sources that will reduce the cost of solar cells, provides a look at<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","nova_meta_subtitle":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5572],"tags":[],"supplier":[],"class_list":["post-14484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bio-based"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14484\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14484"},{"taxonomy":"supplier","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/renewable-carbon.eu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/supplier?post=14484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}