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Holographic Solar Collectors

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the bright-idea dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The MIT Technology Review is reporting that Prism Solar Technologies has developed a technique to use holograms to concentrate light onto photovoltaic (PV) cells. While the implementation is only about a 10x increase over PV cells without collectors such as mirrors/lenses (mirror/lens approaches can do 100-1000x), it is a great deal simpler, more compact, and cheaper. Also because of the concentration, there is less need for physical PV cell real estate compared to crystalline PV silicon cells of similar output."

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  1. Comment removed by account_deleted · · Score: 4, Funny

    Comment removed based on user account deletion

  2. Hologram, eh? by LochNess · · Score: 4, Funny

    Finally, a use for Arnold J. Rimmer.

    1. Re:Hologram, eh? by Tumbleweed · · Score: 4, Funny

      Finally, a use for Arnold J. Rimmer.

      Rimmer Directive 271 states clearly, "No chance, you metal bastard."

  3. Re:Solar collecting is good. by networkBoy · · Score: 5, Funny

    "thats a good link, can you read it back for me over the phone ?"
    Sure:
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