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Maybe it's because the film industry assumes that we're outside soaking up the sun and have lost some brain cells as a result.
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Skyline Solar has come up with a solar system that incorporates large amounts of reflective metal that focus the sun on high-efficiency silicon solar cells.
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Sure, a big hail storm or the like will do a number on your megabucks rooftop installation, but the sun itself, the very thing those cells are designed to capture, gradually damages their internals, reducing efficiency.
ENGADGET: Self-repairing solar cells could also fix our energy dependency
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The lines are thinner than the silver lines commonly found in other solar panels today, so they allow more cells to be exposed to the sun and produce power.
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Solar power is also having a moment in the sun as MIT unveiled the world's first solar cells printed on paper - we can't wait to see a post-it version that we can stick to our walls!
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Harnessing the awesome power of the Sun isn't just dependent on the efficiency of solar cells, but also on making them affordable.
ENGADGET: Stanford researchers create 'world's first' all-carbon solar cell, do it on the cheap
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But building solar cells, the devices that convert photons from the sun into streams of electrons and electricity, is complex, expensive magic to pull off--and has burned many entrepreneurs and investors in the past.
FORBES: The Sunshine Economy
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At sunset, the sun appears red (the blue light has been scattered out of that image, too), so the cells of the eye that detect red are overloaded and incapable of registering weaker red signals.
ECONOMIST: In a flash