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By Jeanne Roberts on July 29, 2011
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First Solar Inc. (Nasdaq: FSLR), billed as the “world’s most valuable solar company”, has announced a new efficiency record for its cadmium telluride (CdTe) photovoltaic (PV) solar cell.
By Nathanael Baker on June 8, 2009
Tags: clean technology, desert, drinking water, Fraunhofer Institute, Germany, humidity, hygroscopic brine, moisture, solar collector, solar energy, solar power
Despite their lack of rainfall, desert's are highly humid, making them filled with moisture. As a result, scientists at the Fraunhofer Institute for Interfacial Engineering and Biotechnology in Germany have designed a way to convert this humidity into drinking water using renewable technologies.
