2010-08-12, 03:08 AM
Been a while since I checked it out, but from what I can remember, solar only convert 2% of its absorbed energy. Adding silver to the compound increases that threshold, tho, for how much I cant remember.
There is an interesting project calls sea solar power http://www.seasolarpower.com/, which seems to be very promising. It is based on the concept that water absorbs heat, and by using surface water with water deep deep below the sea, you would get a difference in temperature which gets converted to power.
By products are deep water and desalinated water.
This whole project seems to have little negative side effects, which is quite interesting as there're lots of gains.
There is an interesting project calls sea solar power http://www.seasolarpower.com/, which seems to be very promising. It is based on the concept that water absorbs heat, and by using surface water with water deep deep below the sea, you would get a difference in temperature which gets converted to power.
By products are deep water and desalinated water.
This whole project seems to have little negative side effects, which is quite interesting as there're lots of gains.