With the continuous efforts that are being made to find new sources of renewable energy, fresh innovative techniques for generating power are coming up.
Recently, it has been found that an ordinary variety of berries can help towards making solar energy more popular and cheaper. By making use of these berries, it will be possible to consume solar energy at a price that will be as cheap as the fossil fuels being used now.
According to the research, when solar cells are coated with a dye made from pokeberries, it enhances the ability of these cells to absorb the sunlight by a great extent.
One of the biggest advantages of these berries is that they are quite resistant to drought and it is very easy to grow them in rocky and infertile soil. Moreover, the berry pants are very cheap to produce and can even be produced by rural people in poor African countries. This means that they can be of great use in places where there is great amount of sunlight present, but no power lines to distribute the electricity from the grid, which is the case in far off areas.
The research was conducted by the researchers at Wake Forest University’ Center for Nanotechnology and Molecular Materials. The group has already acquired a patent for their invention from European Patent Office. But their patent request is still pending in the U.S. Patent Office.
According to experts, such developments can immensely improve the condition of the energy related problems in many developing countries around the world.
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