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New Solar Panel Design Traps More Light

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the thousand-points-of-light dept.

GoSun wrote in with an article about new solar panels that opens, "Sunlight has never really caught fire as a power source, mostly because generating electricity with solar cells is more expensive and less efficient than some conventional sources. But a new solar panel unveiled this month by the Georgia Tech Research Institute hopes to brighten the future of the energy source." The new panels are able to produce sixty times the current of traditional models.

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  1. When you think about it... by Eric+Damron · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    the best solution to our energy problem in the long run would be some source that doesn't deplete anything on our planet. That pretty much leaves solar, wind, geothermal and tidal. And it could probably be argued that geothermal would cool the earth's core faster.

    What I absolutely do not want, however, is the same greedy bastards that are raping us now for our energy to control the development of future energy. Think about it. If they have a choice of giving us near free energy or continuing to corn-hole us, which do you think they'll choose?

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  2. Re:Myth. Solar has a VERY good energy payback by Paulrothrock · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    What are you doing on a ranch that uses 11kW of energy? Growing pot underground?

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