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New Solar Panel Design Traps More Light
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.
you don't want it bright, if it reflects light that's unused energy!
you want a dim future
60 times the current, at 1/60th of the voltage. They're working hard to achieve the next milestone which is 100 times the current (at 1/100th voltage) before Xmas ... in space.
Sunlight has never really caught fire as a power source
Well, I always saw that as a good thing, I don't know about everyone else here...
Yawn. Posting about how a supposed innovation is actually several years old has been done before. Didn't we just read a post titled *yawn* yesterday?
Besides the bad pun... you obviously have never used magnifying glasses on poor helpless insects...
There was a Monty Python episode where they were comparing penguin brains to human brains. They found that if the penguin were scaled up to human size, its brain was still smaller than a human brain. But -- and this is the important part -- it's larger than it was before!
Why isn't this tagged "itsatrap"???
Agent K: A *person* is smart. People are dumb, stupid, panicky animals, and you know it.
You're right about the fact that beaming power from space is bad news. Simulations in sim city show that microwave energy has a 5% chance to destroy Las Vegas... monthly.
Now all we need is something that can trap more girls and well be set!
"When life gives you lemons, don't make lemonade. Make life take the lemons back!" -- Cave Johnson
Also, it's really difficult to trust someone who cannot spell the word equivalent. It seems like that word would come up a lot in the field of, you know, science.
I think there is a world market for maybe five personal web logs.
The Department Of Homeland Security has installed new solar panels throughout the United Stares. When asked about the new panels, DHS stated that it is part of the new Early Warning System. However, anonymous DHS insiders have leaked in formation that reveals far more deatils about the panels than is being officially disclosed.
"The new panels are designed to trap more light, so that we can trap it, and neutralize its threat to the American public. After the rougue photons are trapped, they are then sent to Guantanamo Bay, where they undego interrogations as to why they are violating sovereign American airspace, and why they are trying to enter the United States without the proper documentation." said a DHS source on condition of anonymity.
Knowing Google's lust for data collection, the Soviet Union is still alive and well inside the psyche of Sergey Brin....
You forgot Chuck Norris.
If I have seen further it is by stealing the Intellectual Property of giants.
I have yet to post this, but it was all I could think of,
You must be new here.
Paying taxes to buy civilization is like paying a hooker to buy love.
Gee! Wonder why!
c++;
Probably omitted due to the fact that he invented the sun so that he could demonstrate his ability to kill faster than the speed of light.
Attention deficit disorder is a complicated issue, spanning several major... HEY LET'S GO RIDE BIKES!
Raise the voltage?
Stick it onto a transformer and make the sun blink.
There ya go!
AT&ROFLMAO
The biggest bottleneck right now is the availibity of high-grade silicon.
Don't you see! It's obvious! Oil companies drill through what? SAND! Where does silicon come from? That's right! SAND! It's all a conspiracy by the oil companies!
Come to think of it...what is on the moon? SAND! That's proof that the oil companies are behind the faked moon landings too!
man, every time I read a /. post about bad math, I think it's about bad meth, and get excited about the flamewar that I'm about to witness, only to ultimately disappointed with the relatively tame flamewar about actual facts.
And I quote: "Inductance?! I laugh heartily at your naivete, dear n00b!"
Please stop stalking me, bro.
Shut up you gay whores.