What was the movie/documentary that showed near the end of the movie, as a futurologic exercise, the space station crew discovering the most advanced solar power captation percentage?
I remember watching it, was amazed, and can’t remember what it was… it had an American and a Chinese aboard and the Chinese had orders to give the info to his government, and then he said on worldwide television that he hoped the government would take good care of his family, and revealed the info to the world at large instead of sneaking it only to China.
Anyone knows the name of this?
Just now reading http://www.physorg.com/news170610803.html, solar power record, 43%... and reminded me of that movie.
Thanks for any clue!
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Reminds me of Harlan Elison’s I have no mouth but I must scream
From the article you sited:
“Professor Green, with colleague Dr Anita Ho-Baillie, led the team that developed a silicon cell optimised to capture light at the red and near-infrared end of the spectrum. That cell was able to convert up to 46 per cent of light into electricity. When combined with four other cells, each optimised for different parts of the solar spectrum, the five-cell combination converted 43 per cent of the sunlight into electricity, bettering the previous world record by 0.3 per cent.”
Don’t confuse this with the 12% I mentioned in another thread. They are using 5! different cells to capture that energy. Each cell is tuned to a different wavelength so they can grab UV to IR .
What do you think the cost is on that!
‘Captation [sic] percentage’? You mean conversion efficiency?
@hiphiphopflipflapflop exactly, I knew someone would correct me, thanks!
To all others, thanks… still looking for the movie name..
It’s not a movie. I’ve seen it before. It aired on the Science Channel about a year or so ago. Damned if I can remember the title though. The searching the Science Channel website.
Whatever happened to Harlan Ellison, they actually made a video game on that short story he did “I Have No Mouth and Must Scream”. Think they the Wachowski brother’s gave him a nod in The Matrix where Neo get’s his mouth “glued” shut. That’s when I discovered him, pretty cool game, thing had a glich in it though, couldn’t be won, I think. First I thought rexpresso was talking about “2001” but I don’t think they discovered baby fusion yet. I think I’m done being orange.
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