Monday, June 16, 2014

MIT Falsely Praises Record-Breaking Solar Cell

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Well, a  title and subtitle like this gets you immediately excited to read this article …

A Bad Joke

Once I finished reading this boisterous article, I felt seriously duped by MIT.

Here are the highlights from this article (emphasis added):
  1. “The new cell converts 25.6 percent of the energy in sunlight into electricity, edging past the long-standing record of 25 percent. ”

Seriously, the efficiency was improved by 0.6 percentage points!

I do not know of the top of my head what the current theoretical limit of conversion efficiency is for silicon based solar cells, but a puny increase like this in 20 years of intensive research is dismal.

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