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Power boosting self-cleaning solar panels
2013-11-21 20:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: High-power, self-cleaning solar panels might be coming soon to a roof near you. There are two obvious problems with photovoltaic cells, solar panels. First, they are very shiny and so a lot of the incident sunlight is simply reflected back into the sky rather than being converted into electricity. Secondly, they get dirty with dust and debris caught on the wind and residues left behind by rain and birds. Now, research published in the International Journal of Nanomanufacturing suggests that it...
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