Moth eyes may hold key to more efficient solar cells from PhysOrg.com
One of the difficulties with solar power is that solar cells are notoriously inefficient. Some of that inefficiency, says Peng Jiang, is due to the fact that silicon is reflective. Jiang, an assistant professor at the University of Florida, tells PhysOrg.com that there are “disadvantages to the anti-reflective coating currently used in solar cells.”
Think of the disruptive power of these efficient, yet cheap to produce solar cells. It's like printing money. In remote locations or the developing world, technology like this could have its greatest impact. Half of all hospital beds today are occupied with a patient that contracted a water-borne illness. Imagine the improvement in world health if water could be boiled and sterilized with energy from this technology.
Future preview of upcoming attractions at the NBB: I just got a great book by John Avery called "Information Theory and Evolution". Also, I've got some great articles from the Santa Fe Institute that can inform our understanding of ADD. I hope to get a post together over the weekend.
Check out this movie of an electron filmed by researchers in Sweden. Does that look a Torus?
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