Sentences with phrase «electrical conversion efficiency»

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A chemistry professor at UC Santa Cruz, working with teams from California, Mexico and China, has published a paper reporting a breakthrough which may improve the conversion efficiency of incoming light photons to electrical current by as much as three times.The material developed by Jin Zhang relies on two existing technologies from the field of nanotechnology.

But going from heat to electrical or mechanical energy involves considerable losses; typical steam turbine generators run at about 33 % conversion efficiency — i.e. only 1/3 of the thermal energy gets converted to electricity.

Then they determined PS1 converts sunlight into electrical energy with nearly 100 percent efficiency, compared to conversion efficiencies of less than 40 percent achieved by manmade devices.