On Thu, 02 Jan 2003 00:04:26 -0800, Doug Pensinger wrote: >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?
Very cool! Here's another recent advancement, http://www.originenergy.com.au/news/news_detail.php?pageid=82&newsid=233 http://solar.anu.edu.au/Pages/epilift.html?pageid=82&newsid=233 A joint venture between the Australian National University and Origin Energy has developed a new type of solar cell with the potential to revolutionise the global solar power industry. Director of the ANU Centre for Sustainable Energy Systems, Professor Andrew Blakers today unveiled the Sliver CellTM, which uses just one tenth of the costly silicon used in conventional solar panels while matching power, performance and efficiency. _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
