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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. Sounds like a ST:TNG episode... by Hee-Man · · Score: 0, Offtopic


    Just becareful about programming these into the holodeck. The last time that happened, the Enterprise was almost fried!