Marriage made in sunlight: Invention merges solar with liquid battery
Saturday, September 24, 2016 - 03:52
in Physics & Chemistry
As solar cells produce a greater proportion of total electric power, a fundamental limitation remains: the dark of night when solar cells go to sleep. Lithium-ion batteries are too expensive a solution to use on something as massive as the electric grid. A professor of chemistry has a better idea: integrating the solar cell with a large-capacity battery.