http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/24/snowflake-shaped-photovoltaic-cells-bring-the-holiday-cheer/ Engadget Comments for Snowflake-shaped photovoltaic cells bring the holiday cheer http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/24/snowflake-shaped-photovoltaic-cells-bring-the-holiday-cheer/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/24/snowflake-shaped-photovoltaic-cells-bring-the-holiday-cheer/Dec 24th 2009 2:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/24/snowflake-shaped-photovoltaic-cells-bring-the-holiday-cheer/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/24/snowflake-shaped-photovoltaic-cells-bring-the-holiday-cheer/Dec 24th 2009 2:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/24/snowflake-shaped-photovoltaic-cells-bring-the-holiday-cheer/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/24/snowflake-shaped-photovoltaic-cells-bring-the-holiday-cheer/http://xkcd.com/678/

^ I think we need to start referring to this. ]]>Dec 24th 2009 2:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/24/snowflake-shaped-photovoltaic-cells-bring-the-holiday-cheer/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/24/snowflake-shaped-photovoltaic-cells-bring-the-holiday-cheer/
Description of sandia: Their primary mission is to develop, engineer, and test the non-nuclear components of nuclear weapons
]]>Dec 24th 2009 2:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/24/snowflake-shaped-photovoltaic-cells-bring-the-holiday-cheer/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/24/snowflake-shaped-photovoltaic-cells-bring-the-holiday-cheer/Dec 25th 2009 11:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/24/snowflake-shaped-photovoltaic-cells-bring-the-holiday-cheer/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/24/snowflake-shaped-photovoltaic-cells-bring-the-holiday-cheer/Yep, typical an invention that will not 'proliferate' like all those superbatteries and such. :)

Anyway they do research for military uses and purposes not for the consumers, so for that reason I'd not wait for it to arrive in any consumer devices, although it might of course.
]]>Dec 26th 2009 8:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/24/snowflake-shaped-photovoltaic-cells-bring-the-holiday-cheer/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/24/snowflake-shaped-photovoltaic-cells-bring-the-holiday-cheer/Dec 24th 2009 2:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/24/snowflake-shaped-photovoltaic-cells-bring-the-holiday-cheer/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/24/snowflake-shaped-photovoltaic-cells-bring-the-holiday-cheer/Dec 24th 2009 3:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/24/snowflake-shaped-photovoltaic-cells-bring-the-holiday-cheer/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/24/snowflake-shaped-photovoltaic-cells-bring-the-holiday-cheer/
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Made from >>Real Science]]>Dec 24th 2009 4:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/24/snowflake-shaped-photovoltaic-cells-bring-the-holiday-cheer/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/24/snowflake-shaped-photovoltaic-cells-bring-the-holiday-cheer/
Good question. Maybe they're "sprinkled" in such density that they all touch each other, and can work as if they're just one big wire? That seems too easy.]]>Dec 24th 2009 5:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/24/snowflake-shaped-photovoltaic-cells-bring-the-holiday-cheer/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/24/snowflake-shaped-photovoltaic-cells-bring-the-holiday-cheer/Dec 24th 2009 3:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/24/snowflake-shaped-photovoltaic-cells-bring-the-holiday-cheer/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/24/snowflake-shaped-photovoltaic-cells-bring-the-holiday-cheer/Dec 25th 2009 9:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/24/snowflake-shaped-photovoltaic-cells-bring-the-holiday-cheer/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/24/snowflake-shaped-photovoltaic-cells-bring-the-holiday-cheer/Not 100% less material, which would be 0%. 100 times less, which would be 1% of the material. scnr :P]]>Dec 25th 2009 10:15AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/24/snowflake-shaped-photovoltaic-cells-bring-the-holiday-cheer/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/24/snowflake-shaped-photovoltaic-cells-bring-the-holiday-cheer/Haha, good point, makes 110% sense :)
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