<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/5af24393-0669-4f2b-ab33-ed7e7ceb008c/5AA0F2C4-7C2B-4142-B855-E5C53C30C6CD/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.kurzweilai.net/news/news_single.html?id=9021" href="http://www.kurzweilai.net/news/news_single.html?id=9021" style="font-size: 11px;">www.kurzweilai.net</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.kurzweilai.net/news/news_single.html?id=9021"><TABLE width="100%" cellspacing="2" cellpadding="5" border="0" bgcolor="#cccccc"><TBODY><TR><TD bgcolor="#cccccc"><P><SPAN class="title">Organic dye lets window panes harvest the Sun</SPAN></P></TD></TR><TR><TD bgcolor="#eeeeee"><P> New Scientist news service, July 10, 2008 </P><P><DIV>MIT electrical engineer Marc Baldo had developed a <A class="thought" href="javascript:loadBrain('Method')">method</A> to turn up to 20% of incident <A class="thought" href="javascript:loadBrain('Light')">light</A> into electricity at a fraction of the cost of conventional photovoltaic cells. </DIV> Exotic organic dyes are coated onto an ordinary sheet of glass, trapping <A class="thought" href="javascript:loadBrain('Light')">light</A> inside the glass and allowing it to be channelled to photovoltaic cells placed along the edges of the sheet. The dyes can absorb <A class="thought" href="javascript:loadBrain('Light')">light</A> across the visible spectrum and emit it at the longer frequencies needed for optimal conversion. </p> <P></p> <BR /><A target="_new" href="http://technology.newscientist.com/article/dn14293-organic-dye-lets-window-panes-harvest-the-sun.html">Read Original Article&gt;&gt;</A> </TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/5AA0F2C4-7C2B-4142-B855-E5C53C30C6CD/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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