'Power windows' a bright idea

A Queensland academic is helping to develop energy-generating windows that could eventually provide enough electricity to power a standard home.

The glass solar cells contain titanium dioxide and are coated in a dye that increases light absorption.

Canberra-based company Dyesol is working to develop the product and believes it could be on the market within two years.
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Solar-powered glass houses 'likely'
Australians could soon be living in solar-powered glass houses as part of the battle against climate change, a researcher predicts.

Professor John Bell, from the Queensland University of Technology's Institute for Sustainable Resources, said houses made almost entirely of glass solar cells could become a reality within three to five years as homeowners looked for new ways to cut carbon emissions.
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