{"id":2011,"date":"2013-04-29T13:24:17","date_gmt":"2013-04-29T13:24:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=2011"},"modified":"2013-04-29T13:24:17","modified_gmt":"2013-04-29T13:24:17","slug":"sci-tech-new-techniques-could-greatly-boost-solar-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=2011","title":{"rendered":"Sci-Tech: New techniques could greatly boost solar power"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here are reports on two potential big improvements in solar power collection.<\/p>\n<p>Nanometer sized antennas could convert a much wider range of the solar spectrum into useful electric power\u00a0 than conventional solar cells (via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.citizensinspace.org\/2013\/04\/nanoantennas-could-replace-solar-cells\/\" target=\"_d\">CitizensInSpace.org<\/a>):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/blog\/2013\/02\/uconn-professors-patented-technique-key-to-new-solar-power-technology\/\" target=\"_d\">UConn Professor\u2019s Patented Technique Key to New Solar Power Technology &#8211; UConn Today<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/txchnologist.com\/post\/43730365283\/new-nanoscale-antennas-could-boost-solar-energy\" target=\"_d\">New Nanoscale Antennas Could Boost Solar Energy Harvesting Efficiency to 70% &#8211; Txchonologist<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And a new paper in Science reports on a technique to hurdle over a fundamental barrier to the efficiency of photons creating free electrons in solar cells: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rdmag.com\/news\/2013\/04\/new-solar-cell-coating-could-boost-efficiency\" target=\"_d\">New solar cell coating could boost efficiency &#8211; R&amp;D Magazine<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here are reports on two potential big improvements in solar power collection. Nanometer sized antennas could convert a much wider range of the solar spectrum into useful electric power\u00a0 than conventional solar cells (via CitizensInSpace.org): UConn Professor\u2019s Patented Technique Key to New Solar Power Technology &#8211; UConn Today New Nanoscale Antennas Could Boost Solar Energy &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=2011\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sci-Tech: New techniques could greatly boost solar power<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-and-technology"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-wr","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":13762,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=13762","url_meta":{"origin":2011,"position":0},"title":"ESO: ALMA captures beautiful images of the Sun in millimetre-wavelength light","author":"TopSpacer","date":"January 18, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"A new report from\u00a0ESO\u00a0(European Southern Observatory) with beautiful images of the sun. 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