Lyndsey McMillion-Brown has taken her love of art, books, and the environment and turned it into a career at NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland.
Improving solar cell efficiency would be a massive benefit to come from the Mars Program.
Right now, solar cells only react to one wavelength of light with the rest of the spectrum going to waste. Reacting to a 2nd wavelength would DOUBLE efficiency (producing nearly twice as much electricity.) Imagine a solar cell that reacts to the 7 primaries (ROYGBIV)? Solar cars that never need plugging in! 😵
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in reply to NASA • • •Right now, solar cells only react to one wavelength of light with the rest of the spectrum going to waste. Reacting to a 2nd wavelength would DOUBLE efficiency (producing nearly twice as much electricity.) Imagine a solar cell that reacts to the 7 primaries (ROYGBIV)? Solar cars that never need plugging in! 😵