09-19-2008, 08:06 AM
Quote:I haven't really followed all the energy discussions here that closely, but I figured you guys would find this interesting:
12 Year Old Boy makes me feel inadequate
A pitty that there are not many details given about the technology.
Also harvesting UV is not very interesting, harvesting IR, now that would be a giant leap. Also, what I know about solar cells is that the foton collection is not the biggest issue, many 2d cells can harvest more than 95%, the incident foton to collected electron ratio is the part that is the most important, many excited states or generated electron never make it out of the cell.
I am looking forward to hearing more about this system, and why it is so great (journalists are usually not the right persons to explain how something is working).