energy conversion efficiency Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Wed, 24 Sep 2014 13:17:53 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 Record Breaking Solar Cell Efficiency With a New Polymer https://www.greenoptimistic.com/record-breaking-solar-cell-efficiency-new-polymer-20140924/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/record-breaking-solar-cell-efficiency-new-polymer-20140924/#respond Wed, 24 Sep 2014 13:15:08 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=49324 Innovations in the field of solar emerge every day, although the competition to develop the next best thing, becomes tougher and tougher by the minute. Yet, eager scientists still take on the challenge and keep surprising us. The latest discovery is a polymer, which might hold the key to cheap, light and efficient solar cells, […]

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