<story><title>Rice University researchers propose a way to boost solar efficiency</title><url>https://polyarch.co/rice-university-research-heat-into-light/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>apo</author><text>The title is misleading. The full title is:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; Researchers at Rice University developed a method to convert heat into light that could boost solar efficiency from 22% to 80%&lt;p&gt;The conditional tense signals that the researchers didn&amp;#x27;t actually do so, but that the study might enable it. The article re-iterates that this is speculation:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; The implications of their discovery are significant. Research from Chloe Doiron, a Rice graduate student, revealed that 20% of industrial energy consumption is wasted through heat. It could also mean an increase in the efficiency of solar cells, which are currently only 22% efficient at their peak. Recycling the thermal energy from solar cells using carbon nanotube technology could increase the efficiency to 80% according to the researchers. ...</text></comment>
<story><title>Rice University researchers propose a way to boost solar efficiency</title><url>https://polyarch.co/rice-university-research-heat-into-light/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Retric</author><text>That really needs some editing, it reads like gibberish.&lt;p&gt;Just go to the source: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.rice.edu&amp;#x2F;2019&amp;#x2F;07&amp;#x2F;12&amp;#x2F;rice-device-channels-heat-into-light&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;news.rice.edu&amp;#x2F;2019&amp;#x2F;07&amp;#x2F;12&amp;#x2F;rice-device-channels-heat-i...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>