Photovoltaic is a new electricity generating technology, which transfer sunshine into electricity directly.

光伏发电是一种直接将太阳能辐射转换成为电能的新型发电技术。

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Mazumder and colleagues hope the self cleaning technology could play an important role in increasing the efficiency and reducing maintenance costs of generating electricity from sunlight.

Mazumder和同事希望自我清洁技术可以对提高太阳能发电效率并减少维护费用起重要作用。

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He explains that the technology works by first generating electricity in the traditional manner of a wind turbine.

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As solar panel prices have plunged, developers like Solar Millennium have abandoned solar thermal technology, which uses huge mirror arrays to heat water to create steam that drives an electricity-generating turbine.

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