Jenny Nelson, “Harnessing the Sun” (Open Agenda, 2021)
New Books in Science
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Photovoltaic Energy Conversion
The idea behind photocenses or solar fuels is to convert one chemical species into something else. And then other reactants would get involved, and in the end, you would generate a higher chemical potential energy. The trick with designing a solar cell is to make that process very efficient so it can be carried out by an external circuit.
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