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Graphene: Big promise for new solar technologies
Posted by Greg Laden on February 26, 2013
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A big step in improving the efficiency of photovoltaic cells in on the horizon. A paper published over the weekend in Nature Physics describes the ability of a substance called Graphene to convert a high percentage of the energy from sunlight into electricity. Graphene uses more of each photon’s energy, and a wider range of…
Is Solar Energy Totally Bogus or Something that Gives Hope?
Posted by Greg Laden on February 25, 2013 
I recently posted a simple Internet meme suggesting that if we subsidized solar energy like we subsidized fossil fuels that this could be good. I posted that on Google Plus an it engendered way over 300 comments, many of which attempted to explain, often rather impolitely, that solar energy was inefficient or in some other…
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