TRANSPARENT Solar Panels?!
Infinitesimally small quantum dots can turn a window into a see-through solar panel! Thanks to the University of Minnesota for sponsoring this video! http://twin-cities.umn.edu/ Thanks also...
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Hi, this is Kate from MinuteEarth. Solar panels pretty much only come in one color: dark. That’s because they use dark sheets of silicon crystals to absorb the sun's rays, then turn them into electrical energy. And solar panels are becoming so cheap and so efficient that soon, whole cities could run on sunlight...except that almost all the sun-catching area in cities is on the sides of buildings, which are usually designed to let light in. We could plaster solar panels all over the sides of buildings, but that would be SAD for the people inside. However, there might be another way: scientists recently invented a solar panel that looks like a window. In fact, it is a window, except that it’s embedded with a thin layer of tiny silicon particles call...
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Hi, this is Kate from MinuteEarth. Solar panels pretty much only come in one color: dark. That’s because they use dark sheets of silicon crystals to absorb the sun's rays, then turn them into electrical energy. And solar panels are becoming so cheap and so efficient that soon, whole cities could run on sunlight...except that almost all the sun-catching area in cities is on the sides of buildings, which are usually designed to let light in. We could plaster solar panels all over the sides of buildings, but that would be SAD for the people inside. However, there might be another way: scientists recently invented a solar panel that looks like a window. In fact, it is a window, except that it’s embedded with a thin layer of tiny silicon particles call...
