Perry Carroll of The Solar Cloth Company explains why his flexible solar sail panels can generate energy not only at on sea but on millions of spaces on land
It was as the moon hit the sails of his yacht in the Atlantic Ocean that the thought struck Perry Carroll.
“You’ve got a sail and you have got some sun, you must be able to find a way to put those solar sails on that fabric,” he said.
Little over a decade later and that idea – which first hit Carroll during a 635–mile race between Rhode Island and Bermuda – has developed into a business aiming to generate solar energy from awnings over car parks and on the tops of buildings where conventional rigid panels cannot go.