{"id":1280,"date":"2013-11-02T22:40:03","date_gmt":"2013-11-03T05:40:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.awesomescienceprojects.com\/blog\/?p=1280"},"modified":"2013-10-21T22:48:29","modified_gmt":"2013-10-22T05:48:29","slug":"transparent-solar-cells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.awesomescienceprojects.com\/blog\/?p=1280","title":{"rendered":"Transparent Solar Cells"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Solar energy has been gaining ground as a viable green source of energy for our planet. The drawback of having solar cells all over the top of a building to be able to generate enough energy to provide electrical current for running a few simple devices may soon be overcome.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists at ICFO have been working on a solar cell that offers a high degree of transparency. These new generation transparent solar cells are also far more efficient at generating energy using the sun&#8217;s power. They give hope to the concept of having a building where in the windows are able to capture the sun&#8217;s energy to power the home&#8217;s electrical needs.<\/p>\n<p>True the concept is still in infant stage and a whole lot more work is yet to be done to make this a viable and economical project, but the possibilities and potential of these transparent solar cells have researchers the world over excited. Perhaps this could mean the end of the energy crisis.<\/p>\n<p>They are also likely to induce clean cities as the energy is not coming from a polluting fossil fuel but something that is as natural as life itself, sunlight. This <a href=\"http:\/\/auroralipper.hubpages.com\/hub\/Homeschool-Science-Curriculum--Magic-Bending-Water\">science project<\/a> is a major step in the direction of integrating renewable, green energies into urban lives and landscapes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Solar energy has been gaining ground as a viable green source of energy for our planet. The drawback of having solar cells all over the top of a building to be able to generate enough energy to provide electrical current for running a few simple devices may soon be overcome. Scientists at ICFO have been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awesomescienceprojects.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awesomescienceprojects.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awesomescienceprojects.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awesomescienceprojects.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awesomescienceprojects.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1280"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.awesomescienceprojects.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1282,"href":"http:\/\/www.awesomescienceprojects.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1280\/revisions\/1282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awesomescienceprojects.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awesomescienceprojects.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awesomescienceprojects.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}