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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. 60 times the current ... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

  2. Catching Fire by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    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...

  3. (*yawn*)* by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    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?