window.document.getElementById(‘post-7932′).parentNode.className += ‘ adhesive_post’;Marketplace: Kai Ryssdal: Think about this fact for a second as you consider the high price of fossil fuels: Enough sunlight hits this planet every hour to meet its energy needs for an entire year. Energy crisis solved, right? Not to mention global warming, too. Except it’s not that easy. The thing about solar power is that it’s inefficient and expensive to store kind of power when the sun’s not shining. Today, a researcher at MIT said he’s found a way around the darkness, and that has …
Solar breakthrough simplifies storage
window.document.getElementById(‘post-7932′).parentNode.className += ‘ adhesive_post’;Marketplace: Kai Ryssdal: Think about this fact for a second as you consider the high price of fossil fuels: Enough sunlight hits this planet every hour to meet its energy needs for an entire year. Energy crisis solved, right? Not to mention global warming, too. Except it’s not that easy. The thing about solar power is that it’s inefficient and expensive to store kind of power when the sun’s not shining. Today, a researcher at MIT said he’s found a way around the darkness, and that has …
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