{"id":507,"date":"2016-04-13T10:40:55","date_gmt":"2016-04-13T14:40:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/solarenergylocal.com\/news\/?p=507"},"modified":"2016-04-11T17:49:03","modified_gmt":"2016-04-11T21:49:03","slug":"new-all-weather-solar-cell-could-change-everything","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.solarenergylocal.com\/news\/new-all-weather-solar-cell-could-change-everything\/","title":{"rendered":"New all-weather solar cell could change everything"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Technological breakthrough may boost the power of solar cells<\/h2>\n<p>Solar panels and bright sunny days get along like two old friends, syncing up hand-in-hand with a common goal. But then the clouds and rain appear and the honeymoon is over, right? Maybe not anymore.<\/p>\n<p>Chinese scientists say that generating electric current from rain may be possible, thus eliminating those &#8220;down&#8221; periods for solar panels when the weather dictates that they cannot produce any power.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Graphene-coated solar panels could create electricity from raindrops <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/4vevnUDwOP\">https:\/\/t.co\/4vevnUDwOP<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Quartz (@qz) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/qz\/status\/719477820322394112\">April 11, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h3>Graphene all-weather solar cells could solve many problems with solar<\/h3>\n<p>According to researchers, a solar cell that utilizes a material known as graphene could ultimately produce an advanced all-weather solar cell that could produce electricity, rain or shine.<\/p>\n<p>The science is complex but the general idea is this: The proposed process is to cover solar panels with thin graphene sheets that, during a period of rain, would separate positively and negatively charged ions in rain water to ultimately create current. <\/p>\n<p>The entire theory revolves around the fact that rain is not pure water, but also contains salts that can be &#8220;split&#8221; in a process using graphene.<\/p>\n<h3>So far, so good<\/h3>\n<p>The scientists have already seen success utilizing this new type of all-weather solar cell and plan further testing with graphene solar cells. If the new process continues to progress, this could open up a whole new door for solar energy, as it&#8217;s largest weakness could essentially evaporate.<\/p>\n<!--inlink error-->\n<span class=\"source-attribution\">Orginally published on &rarr; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.e-wisdom.com\/news\/new-solar-cells-can-create-energy-rain-or-shine\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">E-Wisdom<\/a><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chinese scientists say that generating electric current from rain may be possible, thus eliminating those down periods for solar panels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":508,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[69,16,3,7,6,24],"class_list":["post-507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-solar","tag-graphene","tag-solar-cells","tag-solar-energy","tag-solar-panels","tag-solar-power","tag-weird-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.solarenergylocal.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.solarenergylocal.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.solarenergylocal.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.solarenergylocal.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.solarenergylocal.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=507"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.solarenergylocal.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":509,"href":"https:\/\/www.solarenergylocal.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507\/revisions\/509"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.solarenergylocal.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.solarenergylocal.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.solarenergylocal.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.solarenergylocal.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}