Carbon Nanotube Towers Could Increase Solar Power

Vict0r writes "Researchers at the Georgia Tech Research Institute have recently demonstrated a way to grow carbon nanotubes in towers. The article also discusses applications for solar cells." From the article: "Reflections off the Gothamesque towers would provide more opportunity for each photon of sunlight to interact with the p/n junction of the cell. That would increase the power output from PV cells of a given size, or allow cells to be made smaller while producing the same amount of power."

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a lot of solar news lately

[grqb]

So far this week we've had quite a bit of solar news...solar power airplane to fly around the world, another breakthrough in solar power that brings the price of solar from $8/watt to about $1/watt and now this...hmmm I should get into this business it seems!

Carbon nanotubes are also all over the map these days so why not nanotubes and solar? I guess we'll have to wait a while until this becomes commercial though because I don't think carbon nanotubes can be scaled up very easily.