Comments on: Deep sea bacteria could provide breakthroughs for solar panels

By: Tom

Tom — Wed, 16 Jan 2013 00:26:30 +0000

Hi Katie, This sounds exciting. Please tell us the name(s) of the researchers at the University of Cambridge who are doing this work.

Also, where did you get your information about the work? Like, “…use photosynthesis to convert 100 percent of the light they find into electricity. In contrast a typical solar panel commonly converts around 15 percent of sunlight into electricity.” These are interesting numbers.

Thanks!

By: fromrigstoriches

fromrigstoriches — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 00:46:21 +0000

Thanks for sharing this. I have only recently become fascinated with Solar and this was an awesome story to read! They are doing such amazing things with algae and bacteria in the energy world.

Scary thing is what happens when you start tinkering with nature and start trying to mass produce it for energy needs?

I hope to see more stuff like this!

By: simonhamer

simonhamer — Sun, 06 Jan 2013 18:26:05 +0000

Reblogged this on Simon Hamer and commented: Solar starting to get into the news.