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Another form of solar some day

azrving
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monkey44
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Wait for it -- some day soon, we'll have a series of mini-windmills in our grills and on our roofs, which will generate electricity for battery charging. Very renewable --

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GordonThree wrote:
Great news. Synthetic photosynthesis, science!

And organic flow battery technology:
https://www.seas.harvard.edu/news/2018/07/organic-mega-flow-battery-transcends-lifetime-voltage-thre...
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mike-s wrote:
azrving wrote:
People were walking in horse manure in New York not that long ago. Lol
Better than the human manure these days.


X's Three! ๐Ÿ˜ž

mike-s
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azrving wrote:
People were walking in horse manure in New York not that long ago. Lol
Better than the human manure these days.

azrving
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MDKMDK wrote:
โ€œThese hybrid materials that we are developing can be manufactured economically and sustainably, and, with sufficient optimization, could perform at comparable efficiencies as conventional solar cells,โ€ Vikramaditya Yadav, a professor in UBCโ€™s Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, said."
And with sufficient optimization probably means the process still doesn't work in anything other than a lab test bench.


Yep, interesting stuff, they probably said the same thing at one time about the panels we use today. People were walking in horse manure in New York not that long ago. Lol

MDKMDK
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โ€œThese hybrid materials that we are developing can be manufactured economically and sustainably, and, with sufficient optimization, could perform at comparable efficiencies as conventional solar cells,โ€ Vikramaditya Yadav, a professor in UBCโ€™s Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, said."
And with sufficient optimization probably means the process still doesn't work in anything other than a lab test bench.
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GordonThree
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Great news. Synthetic photosynthesis, science!
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