{"id":2872,"date":"2014-12-12T06:57:40","date_gmt":"2014-12-12T11:57:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=2872"},"modified":"2014-12-12T06:57:40","modified_gmt":"2014-12-12T11:57:40","slug":"will-new-technologies-give-critical-boost-to-solar-power-by-cheryl-katz-yale-environment-360","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=2872","title":{"rendered":"Will New Technologies Give Critical Boost to Solar Power? by Cheryl Katz: Yale Environment 360"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/e360.yale.edu\/feature\/will_new_technologies_give_critical_boost_to_solar_power\/2832\/\">Will New Technologies Give Critical Boost to Solar Power? by Cheryl Katz: Yale Environment 360<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: georgia, times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; color: #000000;\">Today, despite recent progress, solar power accounts for about one percent of the world\u2019s energy mix. Yet the International Energy Agency (IEA) says that solar energy, most of it generated by decentralized \u201crooftop\u201d photovoltaic systems, could well become the world\u2019s\u00a0<a style=\"color: #005626; text-decoration: none;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.iea.org\/newsroomandevents\/pressreleases\/2014\/september\/name-125873-en.html\" target=\"_blank\">single biggest source of electricity<\/a>\u00a0by mid-century.<\/p>\n<p>So how do we get from here to there?<\/p>\n<p>The answer, according to scientists and engineers, lies in a new generation of super-efficient, low-cost sunlight harvesters that take up where the<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"imageleft\" style=\"border-right-width: 1px; border-right-style: solid; border-right-color: #999999; float: left; font-size: 10px; font-family: verdana, arial, sans-serif; color: #444444; padding: 3px 7px 3px 0px; margin: 5px 7px 5px 0px;\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 5px 0pt 0px 0pt;\" src=\"http:\/\/e360.yale.edu\/images\/features\/Perov-29512-250.png\" alt=\"perovskite\" width=\"250\" height=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"credit\" style=\"font-size: 9px; color: #cccccc; text-align: right; width: 250px; line-height: 10px; margin: -2px 0px 5px 0px;\">NREL<\/div>\n<div class=\"caption\" style=\"width: 250px; line-height: 12px;\">Quality and efficiency of perovskite solar cells, like the one shown here, have surged recently.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-family: georgia, times, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; color: #000000;\">recent flood of cheap silicon panels leaves off. New designs and novel solar materials have recently been setting new efficiency records seemingly every week. Although research and development of solar power still falls far short of where scientists and engineers say it needs to be, innovators are making steady progress in creating a new generation of materials that can harvest the sun\u2019s energy far more efficiently than traditional silicon photovoltaic cells.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!-- [if gte mso 9]><xml>\n <w:WordDocument>\n  <w:Zoom>0<\/w:Zoom>\n  <w:DisplayHorizontalDrawingGridEvery>0<\/w:DisplayHorizontalDrawingGridEvery>\n  <w:DisplayVerticalDrawingGridEvery>0<\/w:DisplayVerticalDrawingGridEvery>\n  <w:UseMarginsForDrawingGridOrigin\/>\n <\/w:WordDocument>\n<\/xml><![endif]--> <!--StartFragment--><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 13.0pt; font-family: LucidaGrande; color: #282828;\">&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--EndFragment--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Will New Technologies Give Critical Boost to Solar Power? by Cheryl Katz: Yale Environment 360. Today, despite recent progress, solar power accounts for about one percent of the world\u2019s energy mix. Yet the International Energy Agency (IEA) says that solar energy, most of it generated by decentralized \u201crooftop\u201d photovoltaic systems, could well become the world\u2019s\u00a0single [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[433,674,1859],"class_list":["post-2872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-2","tag-international-energy-agency","tag-renewable-energy","tag-solar-power"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2872"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2872\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2873,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2872\/revisions\/2873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}