Thursday, February 7, 2008
Flexible Nanowire Solar Cells
As Global Warming becomes more of a reality day by day, with fluctuations in the weather, and emmense number of natural calamities occuring each year. It is evident that we need some sort of an alternative clean energy for the future. Solar Cells are a hot topic but is not economically friendly and the amount of solar cells needed to build to suffice the energy consumption for instance of a country such as America is alarming. Not until I found this interesting news article in "technology review" about incorporating nanotechnology into solar cells and reducing price while increasing the efficiency of generating clean energy. I picked this article simply because it involves an area of knowledge that interests me. And secondly since nanotechnology is fairly new field I realize that tremendous amount of new journal and articles are written in this area to promote one of the four norms, "communalism," which could lead to even more research and new discovery of new knowledge in this area. I also realize that being a news article the writer is referring to a research done by a group of scientists at MIT and he/she has written the article in a very captivating and dramatic way which I found very interesting and easy to follow, something I did not find in the actual journal. Enjoy!
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Researchers at McMaster University.
When I read this article, I immediately thought of my friend who works for a solar company. With the word silicon in the business name, if solar cells evolve, what does this mean for his possibly outdated business? It is interesting to think that as this field develops, so many people may be continuously displaced and businesses may have to quickly dissemble.
These issues tie back to science communication (or possibly lack of communication...) between researchers, businesspeople, and consumers. My friend, who is rapidly expanding his business, may find himself in a horrible debt either because he is not keeping up with the field or he is unaware of how quickly scientific innovations can pan out. Of course, we always want the scientific field to keep thriving, but there are many economic implications that we may not recognize. In conclusion, I think it is necessary to try to avoid these alternating peaks and valleys between research and business with communication in advance and not solely in the academic realm.
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