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Solar Power-Cell Breakthrough
An anonymous reader writes "Researchers from the Nanomaterials Research Centre at Massey University in New Zealand have developed synthetic dyes that can be used to generate electricity at one tenth of the cost of current silicon-based solar panels. These photosynthesis-like compounds work in low-light conditions and can be cheaply incorporated into window-panes and building materials, thereby turning them into generators of electricity."
The power companies are gonna be pissed.
Technoli
Photosynthesis isn't a compound; it's a process.
Come on, give the editors credit for using a word larger than 4 syllables and spelling it correctly. You want it to be used in CONTEXT as well? Sheesh, there's no pleasing some people.
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Is this the official annual "Solar Power Breakthrough" that is never heard from again?
Yeah, but the entire energy requirements of Greenland could probably be handled by half a dozen Honda generators.
Who is John Galt?
> Discoveries like this are why I find myself becoming a bigger and bigger advocate of solar power every day.
> There is so much power streaming out of the sun.
Nah, solar power is not a good solution in a long run. Sun lasts, what? 5 000 000 000 years? We need to find a power source that doesn't run out of fuel.
Where I live it's *always* today.
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