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Central Valley solar company gets NSF grant
WEST SACRAMENTO February 28, 2008 7:27am 
• Bloo Solar awarded $100,000 • Will use money to advance nanostructured materials surfacing The National Science Foundation has awarded Bloo Solar Inc. of West Sacramento a $100,000 grant to demonstrate a new technique that creates ultra smooth and ultra rough surfaces on tiny wires, one-tenth the diameter of a red blood cell, the company says.
“This grant enables Bloo Solar to deepen its work on the nanostructures contained in Bloo’s ‘Solar Brush’ ultra thin film product,” says Larry Bawden, president and CEO of the privately held company.
“We are excited about the continued support the NSF grant provides for the commercialization of Bloo’s products,” Mr. Bawden says. “This funding will further advance Bloo Solar's Solar Brush technology, which creates billions of integrated nanostructured solar cells per square centimeter to capture light more effectively.”
The company is developing nano-structured photovoltaic “bristled” cells to increase the total power output of solar panels, which it says will reduce the cost of solar energy to that of existing fossil fuel based electricity sources.
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