With the help of a spray on technology they’re developing, this company can take any piece of glass and turn it into a solar panel. That means making much more use of the surface area of a building than just the roof, which is what today’s solar panel companies covet.

The solar window remains transparent, it works during the night and doesn’t need direct sunlight unlike current solar panels.

Assuming technology like this is adopted by decision makers in control of our energy, this sort of thing could mean that the 10 billion people living on earth before the end of this century might actually make it.