Solar cell breaks efficiency record
Saturday Dec 09, 2006
According to CNET: Boeing-Spectrolab has developed a solar cell that can convert
almost 41 percent of the sunlight that strikes it into electricity, the
latest step in trying to drop the cost of solar power, potentially bringing each cell down to 3 dollars a watt. Current commercial technologies get about half that.efficiency.
The solar race, as previously discussed on CNET, is to bring the cost of solar down to one dollar per watt, and by increasing conversion efficiencies that can help meet that goal. It's interesting stuff. Dare I say 2007 is the year of the Sun?
I am not an engineer or scientist, but this stuff provides endless optimism and fascination for me.
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