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'Solar leafs' outshine panels in UK breakthrough - Energy Live News (www.energylivenews.com)

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 years ago (10 children)

Experiments reveal PV-leaves generate over 10% extra electricity compared to standard solar panels, which dissipate 70% of solar energy.

So basically you go from using 30% of solar energy to 33%? Sounds nice but would that really do that much?

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 years ago (8 children)

It's not just a 10% increase in productivity, it produces fresh water as a byproduct:

Furthermore, the photovoltaic leaf is capable of synergistically utilising the recovered heat to co-generate additional thermal energy and freshwater simultaneously within the same component, significantly elevating the overall solar utilisation efficiency from 13.2% to over 74.5%, along with over 1.1 L/h/m2 of clean water.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Thats pretty cool, although that is not even mentioned in the article unless Im missing something.