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Solar energy world first in Australia
2014-12-08 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Sydney Morning Herald: Australian solar power researchers have achieved world-beating levels of efficiency, potentially making large solar plants more competitive with other energy sources such as coal. A team from the Australian Centre for Advanced Photovoltaics (PV) at the University of NSW has achieved 40.4 per cent "conversion efficiency" by using commercially available solar cells combined with a mirror and filters that reduce wasted energy. It's horse and buggy days as far as solar is concerned at the moment....
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