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New technology brings renewable energy’s challenge to the old power systems

Renewables changing the nature of power Crikey,  GUY RUNDLE | APR 22, 2014 New technology has dramatically increased the possibilities of renewable energy. But the material revolution challenges those who want to preserve the existing relations of production, consumption and energy.

Halfway through April this year, scientists at Harvard and MIT announced something extraordinary: they had found a way to create solar cells that can store accumulated energy from sunlight, and then — with no more than a burst of  afew photons, release that energy....(registered readers only) http://www.crikey.com.au/2014/04/22/rundle-renewables-changing-the-nature-of-power-and-manufacturing/?wpmp_switcher=mobile

April 23, 2014 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | general