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Energy singularity means a point where our source of energy is almost infinite, coming from the renewable sources and completely accessible to everyone on the planet.

08 August 2012

New Cheap Solar Panels Created

Researchers from the University of Toronto and King Abdullah University of Science and Technology in Saudi Arabia had created a solar cell out of cheap, inexpensive materials for usage of solar panels with an impressive 7% efficiency.

The new solar cells use quantum dots which can harvest electricity from both the visible and invisible wavelengths of the solar spectrum. Furthermore, it can be created using similar methods used to produce paint or ink which can be fabricated on flexible substrates in the same way newspapers are rapidly printed in mass quantities.

The new way of producing the material pushed the efficiency by 37% compared to previous method using hybrid passivation method using small chlorine atoms.

1 comment:

  1. You are the right our daily life is really depends on petrochemical.

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