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Title: Next-Generation Photovoltaics: Dye-Sensitised Solar Cells
Source:
Innovation Magazine
URL Source: http://www.innovationmagazine.com/i ... volumes/v7n3/coverstory1.shtml
Published: Jan 2, 2008
Author: Michael GRĂ„TZEL
Post Date: 2008-01-02 10:29:24 by Liberty_Zippo
Keywords: Solar, power, energy
Views: 88
Comments: 1
Nanocrystalline photovoltaic devices have become viable contenders for large-scale future solar-energy-conversion systems. Solar cells that copy nature’s very own energy-conversion process could constitute the next generation of green energy-generating sources. Based on photosynthesis, in which plants transform the sun’s rays into stored energy, mesoscopic injection solar cells offer credible and attractive alternatives to solid-state p-n junction devices (explained below). These relatively new nanocrystalline photovoltaic devices, which were invented in the early 1990s, promise viable solutions to future large-scale solar-energy conversion issues on the bases of cost, efficiency, stability, availability, and environmental compatibility. Hit source link for full (rather long) article My opinion is that the human race should cover our houses, cars, office buildings and hats with this stuff and quit fossil fuels. Go totally electric. All the energy in our solar system comes from - or came from - the sun anyway.
Summary - photovoltaic ink made from what is essentially synthetic chlorophyll is way cheaper than silicon-based solar panels.
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#1. To: Liberty_Zippo (#0)
This is interesting.
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