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February 17, 2012
Mid-South News
Mid-South News
Idaho Lab Works on Cheaper Version of Solar Power
Tom Banse (2008-08-13)
A flexible panel of interconnected nanoantennas may one day replace heavy, expensive solar panels. Each square contains roughly 260 million antennae.
Courtesy of Idaho National Laboratory
SEATTLE, WA (KPLU) - Engineers with the Idaho National Lab are working on a cheaper and more efficient way of capturing solar energy. If it's perfected, power hungry gadgets could someday get a quick recharge through a flexible skin of solar cells. The new process will be presented at a conference today (Wednesday) in Jacksonville, Florida. KPLU's Tom Banse reports.

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