"Fluorescent Dye Boosts Solar Cell Efficiency by a Whopping 38 Percent" - [phys.org]

[miahallen]

Interesting article...your thoughts?

http://phys.org/news/2013-05-fluorescent-future-solar-cells.html

[inetdog]

Thought 1: Polymer cells are an untested technology such that simply increasing the efficiency may not make them practical.
Note that increasing the efficiency 38% (e.g. from 10% to 13.8%) still would not get then in the same league as crystalline silicon (17%+).
Now it if increased the efficiency TO 38% we would really have something.

Thought 2: It is often a long road from a lab scale to a production scale process.

[russ]

Interesting article...your thoughts?
http://phys.org/news/2013-05-fluores...lar-cells.html

A writer trolling the university research sites - even if it works it is 10 to 20 years out.