Well I guess you could call that some kind of a 'breakthrough' but there are a lot of stories floating about that fall into that description. However when current heterojunction technologies are already hitting the 30% conversion efficiency mark and current laboratory techniques using quantum dot conversion techniques promise to push that much higher, then what does it mean to say that a novel technique could yield a device one day that could deliver 10% quantum efficiency?
Mother nature already produced the most efficient solar energy conversion technology. Photosynthesis! And she did it millions of years ago by simple trial and error. Not bad. We are stumbling in the dark. Joe On 01/05/2011 6:21 PM, bmolloy wrote: > > > > > Solar Power Breakthrough Could Render Photovoltaic Cells Obsolete > > > > Link: > http://www.activistpost.com/2011/04/solar-power-breakthrough-could-render.ht > ml (via shareaholic.com) _______________________________________________ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainablelorgbiofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (70,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
