Delta Solar Cell Assembly is Over 35% Efficient

[jpak]

http://www.tmcnet.com/altpowermag/articles/5486-delta-solar-cell-assembly-over-35-efficient.htm

Power and energy company Delta Electronics has successfully completed the development of a certified and cost effective assembly process to manufacture concentrating photovoltaic (CPV) modules, a solar cell technology that claims to provide greater than 35% efficiency.

Collaborated with Spectrolab, who originally developed the underlying technology, Delta aims to enable wide availability of CPV modules by its advanced assembly process and bring about an r alternative to the burgeoning solar power industry.

Spectrolab Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Boeing, develops highly efficient terrestrial concentrator solar cells. The company recently demonstrated the ability to convert 40.7 percent of the sun’s energy into electricity. The U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) in Golden, Colo., verified the milestone.

Delta collaborated closely with several leading companies in the field, including Spectrolab, to develop a viable assembly process that solves difficult to address issues such as material suitability, heat dissipation, and hot spot formation. Spectrolab will qualify the new assembly process according to IEC (International Electrotechnical Commission) standards of CPV receivers and modules. The assembly process is currently being evaluated by Spectrolab and shall be qualified as part of Spectrolab’s efforts to demonstrate the robustness of the solar cell receiver assembly under high concentration.

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[AlecBGreen]

1. holy cow!

:wow:

[phantom power]

2. Have I mentioned lately...

how much I hate articles that throw around phrases like "cost effective" without providing any actual cost figures?

[JohnWxy]

3. Wow! NIce to see progress being made while others are extrapolating disaster or are resigned to a

radioactive future for the Earth.

Yes, despite rumours to the contrary, progress IS possible.

[phantom power]

4. There is only one kind of progress that counts.

If the atmopheric concentration of CO2 begins to decrease, that is progress.
If the pH of the oceans begins to rise again, that is progress.
If the droughts end, that would be progress.

Since none of those are happening, and in fact they are all moving in exactly the opposite direction, disaster is the only fact-based extrapolation that is possible.

But hey, at least it isn't a radioactive extrapolation. Whatever that's supposed to mean.
:eyes:

[Dogmudgeon]

5. What does it mean?

I don't know, but with rhetoric like that, there's a chance that ethanol may be involved.

Potable, of course.

:evilgrin:

But let's talk Common Sense®. Nucular Death Energy will cause us to all emit a greenish glow. I saw it on The Simpsons.

--p!
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