Solar power from both light and heat

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Enginerd
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Solar power from both light and heat

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Melosh calculates the PETE process can get to 50 percent efficiency or more under solar concentration, but if combined with a thermal conversion cycle, could reach 55 or even 60 percent – almost triple the efficiency of existing systems.
http://news.stanford.edu/news/2010/augu ... 80210.html

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