See what the average person can do if government stays out of the way and not taxing us to death?
In order to get a degree in journalism you do not have to take a single science course. Thus reporters are clueless in evaluating scientific claims like the ones in this article. The odds that this kid developed anything new or made a breakthough are vanishingly small.
Some4 say he’s copied this:
“3D Solar Cells Boost Efficiency, Reduce SizeNew design uses “nano-Manhattan” carbon nanotube towers
Atlanta (April 11, 2007)
... The 3D design was described in the March 2007 issue of the journal JOM, published by The Minerals, Metals and Materials Society. The research has been sponsored by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, the Air Force Research Laboratory, NewCyte Inc., and Intellectual Property Partners, LLC. A global patent application has been filed for the technology.
...The GTRI photovoltaic cells trap light between their tower structures, which are about 100 microns tall, 40 microns by 40 microns square, 10 microns apart—and built from arrays containing millions of vertically-aligned carbon nanotubes.
...The ability of the 3D cells to absorb virtually all of the light that strikes them could also enable improvements in the efficiency...”
http://www.gatech.edu/newsroom/release.html?id=1337
maybe he’s just a good reader.
It’s always the Asians kids. Plus, his parents gave him a normal first name.
To have 500 times more absorption would mean the existing solar cells are less than 1/5 of one percent efficient.
Far from true.
I know nothing of this young man’s research, however there is no doubt that viable solar is the end game for energy long term. It will take harnessing just 1/10000th of the energy the sun delivers to the earth to provide for the global energy needs for the foreseeable future.
When we manage to finally have a viable solar cell for conversion and viable storage of it for those times when the sun isn’t shining, to achieve this, that is the day that fossile fuels will be relegated to fringe and nitch energy sources.
I know nothing of this young man’s research, however there is no doubt that viable solar is the end game for energy long term. It will take harnessing just 1/10000th of the energy the sun delivers to the earth to provide for the global energy needs for the foreseeable future.
When we manage to finally have a viable solar cell for conversion and viable storage of it for those times when the sun isn’t shining, to achieve this, that is the day that fossile fuels will be relegated to fringe and nitch energy sources.
From what I can tell, he doesn’t have a working model, just theory
Conservatives, in general, love new technology, so it amazes me sometimes to see people on this board downplay to research being done. Fossil fuels are the fuel of the present, but that does not mean they are the best option for the future. We should celebrate American ingenuity every time we get the chance.
Well done, son. Now let’s regulate it and tax it. It’s the patriotic thing to do. My name is B Hussein Obama and I approve of this message.
You gotta love the understatement only a child could make.
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And when this kid makes billions off his invention the liberals will be saying he’s too rich and we should take it away from him to help others. In their greed they will conveniently forget that he will have already helped others through his invention.
Those solar hot dog cookers were good enough for my generation and oughta be good enough for his.
"Solar it seems underused, and there are only a few problems with it," Yuan said.Gotta love kids, eh?