----- Original Message ----- From: "Doug Pensinger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "New Brin-l Address" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, January 02, 2003 2:04 AM Subject: More Efficient Solar Cell
> In this months issue, Scientific American honored the National Energy > Resources Laboratory and Spectrolab " for constructing the most > efficient land-based solar cell. ...the cells converted 34% of the > energy in sunlight to electricity beating the previous record by about > 2%. Equally important, Spectrolab used standard production equipment to > manufacture the cells and built them on a low cost base of germanium; > they are more than 40% more efficient than other mass produced cells." > > > An on line article is at > http://www.boeing.com/news/releases/2002/q2/nr_020521s.html > > Maybe the future of solar cells _isn't_ that distant, eh? > Maybe, but I've seen press releases on new technology before. IMHO, a publicity blurb by a company trying to sell something should be taken with a 3 pound bag of salt. If there is an independent report; if there is an example of something on the market right now, etc. then the credibility rises. How much weight do you give to PR blurbs coming from companies in general? Dan M. _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
