Good News from Hard-working Scientists!

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"Good News from Hard-working Scientists!
Saturday, 20 August 2011 08:17 Moses Ma .User Rating: / 1
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While the economy has been falling apart, it's actually been an amazing month for science. Several major breakthroughs have been announced recently, including:


Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have succeeded in producing printable solar panels. Solar power is a great alternative energy source, but the reality is that it's a rather expensive alternative. It's been predicted that someday, in the future, we'd be able to simply print or paint solar cells onto roofing materials ? a radically innovative and less-expensive way to make solar cells. The MIT researchers discovered the printing process works on just about any kind of paper, from regular printer paper, to tissue paper, and even to already-printed newspaper.
However, printing the cells is not as simple. It must be done in a vacuum-tight room where the special ?ink? is deposited on the paper. According to an article by MIT?s David L. Chandler, the process is almost as cheap and as easy as printing a photo on your inkjet. Professor of Electrical Engineering Vladimir Bulovic said the team has thoroughly tested the robustness of the technology. He said that the low weight of the paper substrate will let them create ?scalable solar cells that can reach record-high watts-per-kilogram performance.? This could open up a number of applications. For example, they could be used in remote developing countries where weight is a large factor in how many cells can be delivered. The paper can also easily be applied to a wall or to window shades to make it super easy to install your own solar panels. It's new technology and needs to be tweaked -- for example, the paper-printed solar cells have only about 1 % efficiency. But it's pretty sure that someday, we'll be able to roll laminated paper sheets on our roofs for years of free energy!


In other news, a Dutch company PlantLab is about to revolutionize farming with a new technique that will almost everything you know about growing plants. Instead of outdoors, they want farms to be in skyscrapers, warehouses, or underground using hydroponics or other forms of controlled environments. Instead of sunlight


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