The article I read was about a new kind of solar energy collection system. The system is based on different metals than most solar energy collection systems. I am always amazed at what we can find metals to do. When you learn about metal in grade school it doesn't seem so special. Its usually hard and sometimes shiny and it conducts electricity. However, that whole conducting electricity and energy is so special and widely used in our technology. This article is much more in depth and scientific than many others I have written about in the last week and a half, but it is good to stretch the brain. They have found a new way to have usable electrons which could split water molecules and not tarnish or harm the metal that was providing the electrons. That is rather great. The do say that it is fast becoming an efficient manner of collecting solar energy and that is really worth the cost. We need efficiency and clean solar energy and other types of alternative energy to help our future have a future. There is only so much energy in the oil and plant life on this earth, but there is a lot more energy in the every day processes that feed the earth.
http://scienceblog.com/60546/a-whole-new-kind-of-solar-energy-technology/
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