of kids want an iPad
The Nielsen Company presented a cadre of individuals with a list of nice, shiny gadgets and let them cross off anything and everything they'd like to buy in the next six months, and 31 percent of kids 6-12 picked the iPad as one of them.
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I 'm no expert and I'm too tired to read the entire linked article but above it says:
"for the first time, and we're told that the arrays can convert between 90 and 100 percent of the photons they absorb"
The question we should be asking is, what is the absorption rate of the panels?
Dose this solve the crisis probably not but its a large step forward.
@andromeda05
I think you will have to wait a bit longer, maybe 10 - 20 years.
@andromeda05 I think the Idea of solar panels is a great thing but not in the current format that governments are placing it at. I'm all for the R&D that is going into the field today but I think that the government payouts for people that are deploying this kind of tech should be funneled into the R&D instead of paying people to use a product they wouldn't be able to afford or better pay for itself otherwise.
We need to look into the tech we have today. IE Nuclear and this Conservative shouted for joy when Obama said he was going to fund nuclear power, and furthermore I want to smack a few Republicans/Democrats who are arguing for the sake of arguing with him about the issue because he wanted to push it, and for the left winged eco people we have 2 choices coal or nuclear that can be deployed today you choose.
@andromeda05 : this is the key question in the short term. But the long term issue is, "how well does it scale?". Sure, that phenomenal efficiency may only be applied to a minuscule amount of photons, but the underlying conversion tech can be combined with some other breakthrough in collection..assuming this isn't just another attempt by a college to scam millions out of the taxpayer. As someone else already commented, that sort of thing is all too common with the big technical schools. They are promising the moon in order to keep the funds coming in.
@psycros I don't care how much we funnel into R&D as long as progress is made America is became the power it is today by funding everything it could get it's hands on not using tech that has a lot of promise before it's ready to be deployed. I believe that was what the old USSR a proved to be too expensive and there not exactly around today to talk about it.
But as long as the school improves on its tech year to year keep giving them money and look for new people to fund on projects that show promise not pay people to save $10.00 a month on a panel that cost them $1000 after government rebate.
My father in law is It for one of the power companies in southern Georgia and his opinion is take away the government money and see what still stands and after some thought I agree.
It's too expensive to do what were doing. Instead of all this nonsense we could have had a Zero emissions USA years ago at half the cost to the customers and have been looking to fund research for ways to replace the reactors instead of arguing on what should be allowed to power homes in the USA.
It's simple Nuclear until something better can reliability take its place.
@andromeda05 I Wish i could edit my post
@andromeda05
85% (as per the source link), so we're talking 77-85% energy conversion here, which is fantastic.
@grobbo
Actually (see my earlier posts) it's 77-85% EQE, not energy conversion :(