solar
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Redesigned Solar Panels Could One Day Charge Your Gadgets From a Lamp
Despite being excellent tools for harvesting the free energy the sun is blasting towards our planet all day long, the solar panels you see dotting roofs and blanketing fields don’t really work with artificial light. But as researchers sought out new materials to improve the efficiency of solar photovoltaics, they also discovered these materials could…
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The Future of Solar Is Double-Sided Panels that Follow the Sun
Most solar panels capture sunlight from only one side, meaning they can capture more or less of it depending on where the sun is in the sky. In recent years, they’ve become far more efficient, typically converting around 22 per cent of the light they capture into energy.
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Bill Gates-Backed Startup Uses AI To Create Solar Rays Hot Enough To Melt Steel
Like a kid burning holes in their toys using a magnifying glass, solar furnaces essentially do the same thing on a much grander scale. The larger an array of reflectors you can build, the bigger the sun-focusing lens you get. But a new startup is promising a better way to build solar furnaces using AI…
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These New Solar Cells Let You Print Out Solar Panels And Stick Them On Your Roof
Australia’s first commercial installation of printed solar cells, made using specialised semiconducting inks and printed using a conventional reel-to-reel printer, has been installed on a factory roof in Newcastle.