Jenny Nelson, “Harnessing the Sun” (Open Agenda, 2021)
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The Limiting Efficiency of a Solar Cell
How much, ever, how much solar energy you can turn into electrical and rad keything, he am. So very basically, i have light coming en. I'm exciting these electrons up to an energy level, and somehow i'm capturing them so they don't sink back down again to the ground state. And i'm driving them into a current from which i can do work and and all the rest of that. But there are some, from this basic theoretical structure and understanding as i understand it, there are a some limits to how much of this i can actually get out.
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