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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.
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