Current Event: Solar power - advanced!

Have you ever noticed that solar panels are always tilted- askew? They are never facing up, but diagonal! This is because the panels could only absorb sunlight from one direction. The bad thing about this is that when the sun is faced away from the panels, the panels don't absorb anything- those were the old times. Now, researchers have developed a new anti-reflective coating that boosts the efficiency of solar panels and allows sunlight to be absorbed from almost any angle. The old untreated solar cell absorbs two thirds of the sunlight it receives; but the new solar cell absorbs 96.21%! Hopefully, we can give up other fuels and start using solar panels for energy! Jeremy Leggett, founder of Solar Century, a leading UK solar-energy company, believes that the future is already very bright for the solar industry. Even though solar power is expensive, maybe we should all try to get ahead of time and start using it now and save money in later years!

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