{"id":89890,"date":"2019-04-24T10:44:38","date_gmt":"2019-04-24T17:44:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/new-type-of-silicon-promises-cheaper-solar-technology"},"modified":"2019-04-24T10:44:38","modified_gmt":"2019-04-24T17:44:38","slug":"new-type-of-silicon-promises-cheaper-solar-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/new-type-of-silicon-promises-cheaper-solar-technology","title":{"rendered":"New type of silicon promises cheaper solar technology"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-type-of-silicon-promises-cheaper-solar-technology.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>An international research team led by The Australian National University (ANU) has made a new type of silicon that better uses sunlight and promises to cut the cost of solar technology.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers say their world-first invention could help reduce the costs of renewable electricity below that of existing coal power stations, as well as lead to more efficient solar cells.<\/p>\n<p>Senior researcher ANU Professor Jodie Bradby said <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/silicon\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">silicon<\/a> was used as the raw material for solar cells because of its abundance, low-cost and non-toxicity.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2019-04-silicon-cheaper-solar-technology.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An international research team led by The Australian National University (ANU) has made a new type of silicon that better uses sunlight and promises to cut the cost of solar technology. The researchers say their world-first invention could help reduce the costs of renewable electricity below that of existing coal power stations, as well as [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1633,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89890","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\/89890","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89890\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}