Hot Solar Cells Associate professor of electrical engineering Minjoo Larry Lee just got 2.5 Million dollars to develop dual-junction solar cells that can operate efficiently at extreme temperatures above 398.889 Celsius (or 750 degrees Fahrenheit). That’s about as hot as it gets in a brick oven. The idea is that in addition to converting a …
Today I’d like to talk about renewable energy. For the most part, renewable energy, clean energy and green energy are one and the same. That’s if you’re not nit-picking, of course, as sometimes as a result of a clean energy effort, more green areas are damaged or more energy is expended in non-clean ways to make …