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Superconductor Solar Panels

Solar panels. Photo: Vera Kratochvil

In most cases, when light hits a solar cell, electrons get excited and begin to move about — and that’s what generates a flow of electricity. It’s different for superconductor solar panels. Silicon, the semiconductor commonly used in solar cells, is especially good at converting sunlight at certain energy levels, but it loses the rest of the sunlight that hits it as … [Read more...]

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