In 2022, Street Designers is venturing into green energy with solar paint
A significant eco-energy revolution appears to be on the horizon, developing step by step, with the creation of a paint possessing exceptional characteristics. Its unprecedented ambition lies in its function of generating energy from a photovoltaic coating, which also absorbs moisture, in order to judiciously reduce the environmental impact of dwellings. With this innovation, street art could henceforth provide a new energy source for homes, or even for urban infrastructure.
Despite some laudable intentions to tackle climate change and optimise decarbonisation, each year nearly 6 million tonnes new solar waste which is generated. With an average lifespan of twenty to thirty years, photovoltaic panels, which nearly 78 million tonnes according to Irena will have been scrapped by 2050, still struggle to be properly recycled. An innovative technology that is expected to enter the French market soon nevertheless seems to stand out and could balance this environmental hecatomb.
A prolific area of research
For a few years now, the prestigious university of Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT), in Australia, is conducting conclusive research into A paint designed to generate clean energy from sunlight, as well as from the moisture in the air., channelled into semiconductors linked to a home battery. These studies, which could push urban planning to contribute to the energy needs of inhabitants, were then taken up by teams of researchers in Toronto, Canada, at the University of Sheffield in England, or, since 2017, by Professor Paul Dastoor of the University of Newcastle in Australia.
Like a photovoltaic panel, its role is to to convert solar energy into electricity. Nevertheless, without the drawbacks associated with manufacturing or recycling parts necessary for its mechanism, which has the advantage of to work whatever the weather.
Indeed, its production cost remains relatively low compared to other alternatives and its construction process proves to be more ecological than panels. Two processes can be distinguished. The English are developing Perovskite photovoltaic cells, a mineral abundant on the planet and cheaper than silicon, RMIT has, for its part, produced a Formula aiming to create hydrogen. It is made from synthetic molybdenum sulfide which absorbs light and moisture in the manner of silica gel, polymer plastic, as flexible as it is resistant, and titanium dioxide, a white pigment that abundantly absorbs ultraviolet rays.
This device would offer the opportunity to coat building facades but also cars in order to make them partially, if not one day completely, autonomous. Furthermore, it can be applied to various types of surfaces, thus multiplying its action on energy-intensive equipment and structures.
Urban art for ecology
Much better accepted than a few decades ago, though not always unanimously agreed upon in the big cities., Street art could now serve artistic creation just as much as the ecological cause. Tomorrow perhaps, the city will transform into an open-air museum of the works would no longer have merely an aesthetic role but would also supply green energy to the façades they cover.
Strong from its commitments to environmental preservation and eco-responsible art, the creative events agency Street Designers This new painting will be used to offer new services that combine the useful and the pleasant. Muralism and the frescoes imagined by the talented graffiti artists affiliated with the artistic production house, would moreover allow for feeding the premises of companies with clean energy, whose electricity bills would be considerably reduced.
With this offer, the leader in artistic events in France is positioning itself as a pioneer in eco-energy art.
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