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OK Funseekers - No ???? - MAJOR BREAKTHROUGH ON SOLAR
Old 07-29-2008, 03:54 AM   #1 (permalink)
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OK Funseekers - No ???? - MAJOR BREAKTHROUGH ON SOLAR

Last time I posted - skeptics were there -- NOT this time.....the Big Boys are up to the Plate......

IBM breakthrough to significantly reduce solar energy costs | Geek.com

Research being carried out by IBM in the field of solar energy has seen a breakthrough that allows a significant increase in the power generated from a single solar cell. That breakthrough sees a 1 cm x 1 cm cell able to produce 70 watts of usable power. Up until now the average power generation from such a cell was just 20 watts.
The large increase in power generation was possible through the use of concentrator photovoltaics, which focuses more light on to a single cell therefore increasing the potential energy generation by as much as a factor of 10

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IBM's "liquid metal" promises concentrated PV breakthrough - 15 May 2008 - BusinessGreen
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