Professor’s solar-panel breakthrough wins Millenium Technology Prize, could lead to solar ubiquity
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pThe sun is like a big spender at a casino, throwing wads of energy-money at the spinning roulette table that is the Earth, most of it turning into losses. The amount of solar energy hitting our planet reportedly exceeds global demand by a factor of 5,000./p
pHopefully that will change due to a breakthrough by Professor Michael Gratzel, who won this year’s A HREF=”http://www.millenniumprize.fi/en/prize/” Millenium Technology Prize/A, the Finland-sponsored competition to develop “life-enhancing technological innovations.” The biannual MTP is recognized as “the world’s biggest technology prize” and A HREF=”http://www.millenniumprize.fi/en/2010-prize/professor-michael-graetzel/” Gratzel’s entry/A could be similarly huge: He’s developed solar cells that are organically made, cheap to produce, translucent, and tintable to a variety of colors./p
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