Traditional solar cells are lucky to capture six percent of the sun's energy in the form of electricity. But now, researchers at the University of Toronto have invented a method that's five times more efficient. That's pretty damn impressive, really.

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Ron Avitzur 1/19/2005 9:45:02 AM Pacific

The group's press release was misleading. It said Today's best plastic solar cells capture only about six per cent. It did not point out that typical commercial cells are 15%. (They use semiconducting materials.) http://www.nrel.gov/clean_energy/photovoltaic.html Nor did it point out that other cells also achieve 30% efficiency. http://www.lbl.gov/Science-Articles/Archive/MSD-full-spectrum-solar-cell.html

Jerry Kindall

1/19/2005 10:42:28 AM Pacific

That's fairly disappointing, although it explains why the article focused on solar-sensitive clothes, which mystified me.

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