NREL Solar Cell Sets World Efficiency Record at 40.8 Percent

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That's pretty impressive! Might start to make these things work in cloudy areas.

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NREL Solar Cell Sets World Efficiency Record at 40.8 Percent

August 13, 2008

Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) have set a world record in solar cell efficiency with a photovoltaic device that converts 40.8 percent of the light that hits it into electricity. This is the highest confirmed efficiency of any photovoltaic device to date....

Read on here - http://www.nrel.gov/news/press/2008/625.html