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Light releases electrons when it is captured in solar cells. These elcetrons have a great quantity of energy but when they tried to capture the electrons, tons of energy would be lost to heat. They finally reduced the size of the environment they were working with and captured a few. The electrons had to be captured in less than a picosecond. To read more, click here.

This is great so that solar energy can be used more efficiently. With solar power being more efficient, the price of solar power will hopefully go down. It is amazing at how they can come up with technology to figure out how to capture these electrons in such a quick way. Within a few years they probably will have made capturing the electrons and using their energy more efficient.

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