BioSolar announces the Production of BioBackSheet

           BioSolar Inc., a manufacturing company specialized in creating solar panel components, has discovered a technological technique that can help improve solar panels in a drastic way. Solar photovoltaic panels are originally equipped with a clear lamination coating, known as a backsheet, which protects the sensitive solar cells underneath. Generally, this coating would be developed from non-biodegradeable petroleum-based plastic and glass. However, BioSolar has developed a product, BioBackSheet, which is the coating made from cotton and castor beans.
          In some cases, while trying to use renewable energy resources, it can develop waste or pollution when creating and harvesting them. For instance, solar panels have increasingly been used and had produced an extreme amount of toxic and pollution, created by the production of the traditional backsheet. With this problematic issue, BioSolar has developed a solution, whereas a new era in solar power collection may be dawning in that materials, used to harvest energy, will be as clean as its energy source.
           To develop the BioBackSheet, BioSolar processes and uses cotton rags to provide the strength needed to withstand the harsh outdoor environment. Castor beans provide resin, which after processing, can be used to create a material similar to nylon. When combined, the result is a transparent material very similar to currently produced backsheets, excluding the use of petroleum-based materials. BioSolar notes that backsheets are easy to produce, cost-efficient, and are toxic-free from the chemicals needed to traditionally produce backsheets. BioSolar also remarks that the newly produced product has a high degree of thermal conductivity and has electromagnetic properties equivalent to conventional materials as well as the mechanical strength and stability needed for solar panel applications--all in addition to the obvious advantages of using a biodegradable material for manufacturing purposes, particularly as a component in a so-called "green" technology.
           The reason for late widespread adoption of the new biodegradable backsheet can possibly be because of the availability of the caster seeds, which are not grown in the United States due to its natural state being toxic and highly allergenic. For this reason and others, other research efforts are undergoing development in creating caster seeds that do not produce any negative effect.