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This New Solar Panel Innovation Could Get the U.S. to 100% Solar

See-through solar materials may be able to provide 100 percent of U.S.’s energy demands.

This New Solar Panel Innovation Could Get the U.S. to 100% Solar
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See-through solar panels may harvest enough energy to power nearly all of the United States’ energy demands, according to a study published late last month in Nature Energy. Currently, less than 1.5 percent of electricity demand in the United States is met by solar power—a percentage that has remained relatively steady over the past decade even as the cost of solar panel installation has gone down.

“Highly transparent solar cells represent the wave of the future for new solar applications,” said Richard Lunt, a professor at Michigan State University and the lead researchers on the paper.

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