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Solar Cell Inventor Wins Millennium Prize

Posted by samzenpus on from the fun-in-the-sun dept.

adeelarshad82 writes "The inventor of a new type of solar cell won the Finnish state and industry-funded, €800,000 ($1.07 million), Millennium Technology Prize. According to the foundation, Michael Graetzel's dye-sensitized solar cells, known as Graetzel cells, could be a significant contributor to the future energy technologies due to their excellent price-performance ratio."

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  1. Re:Decrease, not increase by rossdee · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    "We need to stop using cellphones unless we actully need them,"

    I have my cellphone switched off when I am not using it. But cellphones don't use a lot of power anyway.

    "we need to forbid any kind of personal cars and force people to use bikes"

    I don't know where you live, but in some parts of the country we have this phenomena call weather. Cars have protection against rain, hail snow and cold, bikes do not. Also trying to ride any 2 wheeled vehicle on ice covered streets is very dangerous.

    "(what, are you really going to tell me that a car is faster than a bike in a big city? be serious)"

    I presume in 'a big city' the commute would be further and so the relative speed of a car would make even more difference. Unless of course the city has bike pathways that are shorter than the roads.