A team of researchers from the masdar institute and the massachusetts institute of technology mit may have found a way around the seemingly inseparable high efficiency and high cost linkage through an innovative multi junction solar cell that leverages a unique step cell design approach and low cost silicon.
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Scientists working at the stanford institute for materials and energy sciences simes have improved an innovative solar energy device to be about.
Solar panels have been around for a while now but the materials they re made from make them incapable of converting more than about a quarter of the sun s energy into usable electricity.
Based on the photon enhanced thermionic emission pete process a new solar energy device is about 100 times more efficient than its previous design.
This orb shaped solar power device works on the cloudiest days the use of a clear ball lens to concentrate light into a beam of energy may improve solar power efficiency by up to 50 percent.
And with good reason.
So all we have to do now is to wait for these more efficient solar panels to be available in a store near you.
When and more importantly who invented solar panels is a complex question.
Hook it up to solar panels on your roof walter says and you have a power plant working 24 hours day 365 days a year more from the series.
You can help to reduce co2 emissions while spending less money.
Traditional utility scale and rooftop solar panels have dominated the solar market until this point.
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When the new modules are finished solar bankers plan on putting up 300mw of them either in the states or in germany.
Innovation to ease the green energy bottleneck.
When most people hear the words solar power they instantly think of good ole solar panels on rooftops or in a solar farm in the desert.
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