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Scientists Create Solar Cell Lighter Than a Soap Bubble

March 28, 2016 Shane Hedmond
Photo by PROMalte Sörensen, CC BY 2.0

Photo by PROMalte Sörensen, CC BY 2.0

Harnessing the power of the sun has been on the top of many scientists’ lists for quite some time.  It’s just hanging out up there, making everything warm, so it’s a seemingly endless supply of wireless energy.  The problem is, we haven’t been able to make them cheap, powerful, or light enough to make them economically feasible.  A team of researchers believes they solved one of those problems as they’ve revealed a solar cell so light that it can rest on a soap bubble without popping it.

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In Green Building, Technology Tags construction, green building, solar cells lighter than bubbles, worlds lightest solar cells, worlds thinnest solar cells, MIT solar cell research
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