earth2tech.com - 12/8/2008
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Thin-film solar companies may not like questions about their conversion efficiency , but two new studies out this week from MIT and UCLA could eventually help solar cell manufacturers achieve numbers worth bragging about.
In a study published in this week’s Journal of the American ...
earth2tech.com - 12/9/2008
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earth2tech.com —
For the past few months, stocks of solar-energy
companies have been following the movements of the broader...
market, only with amplified volatility. So it comes as no surprise that, with stock indexes in general rising for the fourth straight trading ...
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Solar Rally — How Long This Time?
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IBM, Harvard Launch Distributed-Computing Search for Super-Efficient Solar Cells [Earth2Tech]
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... Even at the cutting edge of solar research (we wrote about some coming out of UCLA last week), scientists today can achieve only a little more than 5 percent efficiency with plastic, compared with more than 10 percent efficiency with silicon. Researchers continue to pursue polymer solar cells, however, because of the potential for much cheaper and more flexible materials that could be used on more varied surfaces than today’s solar arrays. ...
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