if it became cheap enough,
could change home and office electricity production as we
know it, quantum dot infused windows as they are called has embedded in
them tiny semiconductors which will in sunlight produce clean electricity
whilst still letting light into the room or office, the research involved was conducted at the Department of
Energy’s renowned Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) and published in Nature Nanotechnology, but, well there is always a
but, the panels are super expensive although recently manufacturing costs
have come down, but as the price of electricity rises there could be a meeting
point, reading through some of the
published literature there are two questions that are
not answered, how much energy is used in the making of the panels and what
happens at night? I guess the answer to the second is
a nuclear power plant to provide night time electricity and who knows how big a
carbon footprint will be left by the first question.
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