Sunlight Converted Into Electricity With Highest Efficiency Ever Reported

Headlines and Global News ^ | 12/07/2014 | Rebecca Macarelli

[CPT Clay]

hmmm

[sphinx]

Agreed. It is easy to see how solar, IF costs continue to decline, could be integrated into building design. Many homeowners could become substantially or entirely self sufficient for electricity. If storage improves — another big IF — one might not even need the grid for emergency backup or peak capacity. But that still doesn’t get us anywhere close to what we need for high intensity industrial or commercial applications. That’s still far enough over the horizon that it’s science fiction. It could happen, but I’d still bet on next generation nuclear for centralized generation.

[taildragger]

In addition to the grammatical mistake, this statement makes no sense.

If I understand this panel design what they are doing is tailoring a series of sub-straits that target individual wavelengths ( or a bandwidth of light if you will) and what a tailored plate doesn't grab passes thought to be grabbed by the next substrate and it continues until the entire band is exhausted.

[PapaBear3625]

There could very well be a time when solar power makes sense in certain parts of the world.Australia is basically one huge desert.

Putting in a solar-powered desalinization plant might be viable. If the plant only runs when the sun shines, that's fine -- you just accumulate water then into holding tanks.