New plastic can better convert solar energy

A bit more info on the last entry: "the advance would not only wipe away that inefficiency, but also resolve the hassle of recharging our countless gadgets and pave the way to a true wireless world.

'We now have our cellphones and our BlackBerries and we're walking around without the need to plug in, in order to get our data,'' he said.

'But we seem trapped at the moment in needing to plug in to get our power. That's because we charge these things up electrically, from the outlet. But there's actually huge amounts of power all around us coming from the sun.''

Presumably if it's using IR, then it could also recycle body heat and room heating into electricity ... ?



The film has the ability to be sprayed or woven into shirts so that our cuffs or collars could recharge our IPods, Sargent said."

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