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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 ZiakII · · Score: 5, Funny

    Well I am happy to announce that the Slashdot crowd is leading in that front!