32 Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Thu, 02 Jun 2016 07:14:07 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 MIT Breaks Theoretical Efficiency Limit of Solar Cells https://www.greenoptimistic.com/mit-efficiency-limit-solar-cells/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/mit-efficiency-limit-solar-cells/#respond Thu, 02 Jun 2016 07:14:07 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=60015 An MIT demonstration revealed the ability to top the theoretical upper limit of solar cell efficiency which is currently 32 percent. It was a silicon solar cell that showed that the Shockley-Quiesser Limit could be bypassed, suggesting a silicon alternative to perovskites and other solar cell types. An efficiency of 32 percent is considered high, […]

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