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New Cells Producing Renewable Energy
The solar cells are devices that have been around us, and all we have seen sometimes a solar paddles. But, in spite of being a relatively old technology, its yield in terms of “energy received” versus, “given energy” is quite depressing. A typical solar cell, like that they are in the ceiling of many homes, only can turn into electricity at 10% of the solar light that it receives. This forces you to use enormous panels to obtain appreciable amounts of energy.
Nevertheless, this panorama can change in the near future. A group of investigators of the Ohio State University in short, accidentally, found a new material that could be used to construct solar cells able to realize a conversion of light to electricity with a yield very near 100%. The material is a complex compound, that contains plastics, molybdenum and titanium. Whereas the present solar cells base their operation on a phenomenon known like fluorescence, the new material makes its magic by means of fosforescencia. And it seems that the difference is fundamental at the time of obtaining a good yield.
In the new process (fosforescencia) the electrons remain in a state in which 7 million times can “be turned aside” like electricity a time greater than their companions of the fluorescent cells. This combination of materials also takes advantage of all the visible phantom light it turns and it into energy, which is translated almost in a theoretical potential of the 100% of efficiency.
If in an installation of solar cells the common panels by these replaced themselves, a surface of about 10 x 10 meters (the size of the ceiling of a cabin, for example) would produce 10 times more electricity of the one than it consumes a typical family. And nor to speak of the advantages that this weight (and) downsizing would suppose for the artificial satellites or the robotic soundings.
The commercial products based on this material still are years in distance, but this discovery can smooth the way towards a true form of clean and renewable energy.
By: John Zags
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