Wednesday, January 22, 2020

Harnessing the Entire Spectrum of Sunlight to Make Solar Energy More Efficient

Extremely cool, although it appears to be useful mainly for making hydrogen, not electricity directly:

"This new molecule collects energy from the entire visible spectrum, and can harness more than 50% more solar energy than current solar cells can."

https://scitechdaily.com/harnessing-the-entire-spectrum-of-sunlight-to-make-solar-energy-more-efficient/

Nice typo, though: "And they figured out how to collect energy from infrared to ultraviolent"

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AI Just Made 800 Years of Scientific Discovery in ONE Year!

A good summary of the stunning advances AI has already quietly achieved. https://youtu.be/oewpxwoj1dQ?si=tqwX6YhlKkOGjXLU