There was some good news last week. Washington on world markets hostage caught chopping block on a badly needed R & D funding billions to keep busy while, REN21 (21 century for the Renewable Energy Network), a new report renewable energy in the world of investments, a record 32 percent citing the economy and clean energy a major R & Despite a decline of $ 211 billion in cuts D, this.

The progress of our country’s best efforts to prevent it, to walk in front of a small promise. In the past three years and as soon as the sun, a 60 percent decline in the price per kilowatt (KW) production has been growing in large part due to the limits. Coal power is solar power competitive in many areas, the cost of solar technology will continue to drop with the onset of a number of new developments.

Keep abreast of the latest developments taking place in the MIT Solar I, in the past few months the progress that scientists appear one after the other. : – I was one of the most attractive of the five listed below, at a fraction of the cost of coal-fired virtually unlimited solar energy and store it safely, the mean

1. Nano templated molecules that store energy in
MIT associate professor Jeffrey Grossman and others that have successfully azobenzene molecules to build a new molecule created by using carbon nanotubes as thermal solar energy they stored indefinitely “lock in”. An energy density of lithium ion batteries compared to the molecules in the solar energy conversion, and it has the ability to store significant. As Grossman says, “you and stores energy. This is a strong two, it is an object that does not degrade, it is cheap.”

2. Anything printed solar cells
As a result, the cell is very extended and folded printed sheet, and any loss in performance can be expanded to more than 1,000 times.

Photo by Patrick Gillooly, MIT is a characteristic

3. A flat panel solar thermal power
A revolutionary new way to make solar power work of Professor Sen – Micro Solar Thermal – 8 times a better solar panel efficiency is theoretically possible to produce electricity. Solar thermal heating up an element that mirrors the larger teams are required to run a steam turbine. A typical solar PV About the size and shape of the Chen system, the difference between the first strike to capture heat generated by solar light using nanostructured thermoelectric generators. This is because a thermal process, the panels can also shoot from a light to a dark day, and the panels can be from very cheap materials.

4. Nanotechnology to improve solar cell efficiency by a virus
MIT graduate students in the effective use of solar energy to convert carbon nanotubes serve as more accurate than the M13 (the bacteria that usually attacks) designed the virus. A jump of nearly one-third – 10.6 percent efficiency on the order of about 8 percent of the efficiency of the virus jumping from a small machine tools to produce nanotubes and, in a sense, acts.

5. Windows can be run through a transparent solar cell power plants
In the mirror of the world’s cities are filled miles. Can be used to harness the sun’s rays while maintaining the transparency of the glass, what if? When this idea is out there, but as a result of the current efforts brutal efficiency (less than 1 percent), and the window was ineffective, which tend to block more light. Professor of Electrical Engineering Vladimir Bulovic new transparent window glazing organic PV A thin layer of cells by incorporating a breakthrough technology that will eliminate two-thirds of the cost of installation. This is a very low cost thin-film solar cells on the MIT team, a whopping 12 percent believes that performance can be achieved.

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