{"id":210059,"date":"2025-03-30T05:03:01","date_gmt":"2025-03-30T10:03:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/scientists-make-major-breakthrough-that-could-revolutionize-how-we-power-our-homes-and-it-could-save-us-money"},"modified":"2025-03-30T05:03:01","modified_gmt":"2025-03-30T10:03:01","slug":"scientists-make-major-breakthrough-that-could-revolutionize-how-we-power-our-homes-and-it-could-save-us-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/scientists-make-major-breakthrough-that-could-revolutionize-how-we-power-our-homes-and-it-could-save-us-money","title":{"rendered":"Scientists make major breakthrough that could revolutionize how we power our homes \u2014 and it could save us money"},"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\/5rRAWY-3BBg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Researchers at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">Georgia Institute of Technology<\/a> have developed a new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecooldown.com\/green-tech\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"71\" title=\"Green tech\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">technology<\/a> to manufacture <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/news\/2025-02-stable-solar-panel-silicon.html\" target=\"_blank\">solar cells<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Solar energy is growing <a href=\"https:\/\/seia.org\/research-resources\/solar-industry-research-data\/\" target=\"_blank\">rapidly<\/a> in the United States. In 2010, it accounted for 0.1% of electrical generation in the country and has increased to over 6% in 2024. By 2029, solar is slated to become the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iea.org\/energy-system\/renewables\/solar-pv\" target=\"_blank\">largest source<\/a> of renewable energy.<\/p>\n<p>Most commercial <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecooldown.com\/solar-panels\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"25\" title=\"Solar Panels\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">solar panels<\/a> are made from silicon. Producing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecooldown.com\/solar-panels\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"25\" title=\"Solar Panels\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">solar panels<\/a> like this is energy-intensive and can be difficult to do within the United States. For solar to take off more in the United States, we need to find a less expensive, more available material.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have developed a new technology to manufacture solar cells. Solar energy is growing rapidly in the United States. In 2010, it accounted for 0.1% of electrical generation in the country and has increased to over 6% in 2024. By 2029, solar is slated to become the largest source [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,1633,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-210059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-solar-power","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210059","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=210059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210059\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}