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Photovoltaics: One bright idea

Photovoltaics: One bright idea

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Oct 29, 2012
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While at the Swiss patent office in Bern in the summer of 1905, Albert Einstein wrote several transformative papers. In one, he explained that energy was interchangeable with matter according to the formula e=mc2. In another, he hypothesized the existence of the photoelectric effect — the notion that light could be turned into energy.

The idea that sunli…

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