Researchers at Northwestern University have hit upon a way to give Blu-ray discs a second chance at usefulness: They make excellent molds for imprinting solar cells with quasi-random nanostructures. Even the ones with terrible movies on them. . Creating solar panels from optical discs is an innovative approach that taps into renewable energy and recycling. Using a conductive material to create solar cells, 3. Fact Check CDs are not optimized for capturing solar energy, and their design and materials are not suited for efficient. . Blu-ray discs are (were) certainly better than DVDs, but it was an incremental improvement at best, as they didn't offer the same kind of revolution that the DVD offered over VHS. Make sure you have lots of disks and then read the article. Maybe by replicating the microscopic, glassy wonderland of the surface of a Blu-ray disc onto a solar pane, the engineers could up a solar panel's performance.
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