{"id":203573,"date":"2025-01-11T15:06:19","date_gmt":"2025-01-11T21:06:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/scientists-achieve-record-breaking-solar-energy-system-only-possible-by-combining-two-major-breakthroughs"},"modified":"2025-01-11T15:06:19","modified_gmt":"2025-01-11T21:06:19","slug":"scientists-achieve-record-breaking-solar-energy-system-only-possible-by-combining-two-major-breakthroughs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/scientists-achieve-record-breaking-solar-energy-system-only-possible-by-combining-two-major-breakthroughs","title":{"rendered":"Scientists achieve record-breaking solar energy system: \u2018Only possible by combining two major breakthroughs\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/soKWJQmfIIE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Researchers created a groundbreaking <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecooldown.com\/solar-panels\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"25\" title=\"Solar Panels\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">solar panel<\/a> system that could increase the total amount of clean energy <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecooldown.com\/solar-panels\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"25\" title=\"Solar Panels\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">solar panels<\/a> can generate.<\/p>\n<p>Solar energy is a promising energy source that is significantly cleaner than traditional dirty fuels. However, current <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecooldown.com\/solar-panels\/\">solar panels<\/a> often require high-temperature manufacturing processes that generate significant amounts of carbon. On top of that, traditional solar panels absorb only small portions of infrared and ultraviolet light, meaning chunks of sunlight don\u2019t get converted into usable energy.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers created a new solar panel system to address these challenges. In a recent study published in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41586-024-08160-y\">Nature<\/a>, a team of scientists combined <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41586-024-08160-y\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">perovskite<\/a> and organic solar cells, two emerging solar technologies, to create what they call a \u201ctandem solar cell\u201d that can absorb a wide spectrum of sunlight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers created a groundbreaking solar panel system that could increase the total amount of clean energy solar panels can generate. Solar energy is a promising energy source that is significantly cleaner than traditional dirty fuels. However, current solar panels often require high-temperature manufacturing processes that generate significant amounts of carbon. On top of that, traditional [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1633,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-203573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-solar-power","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203573\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}