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Solar Power?

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I saw the memristor thread and thought I would share what I saw about a week ago on the local news here. Just bored and half asleep because it's 7am here.

http://www.inl.gov/featurestories/2007-12-17.shtml
added on the 2008-05-02 14:48:44 by hexen hexen
Old Idea (at least I heard of it some decades before)... the only difference is that they are now capable to do it with commercial benefit. Let's see what's coming next...
added on the 2008-05-02 15:23:12 by vscd vscd
From TFA:
Quote:

can absorb close to 80 percent of the available energy

This means it is not necessarily better than solar cells are, depending on bandwidth and wavelength of the antennas...
added on the 2008-05-02 16:00:52 by raer raer

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