Evidently, there has been a large advance in solar energy: the creation of nanoscale antennas that are about 80% efficient.
This is interesting on many levels; the most obvious of couse is "Woot! Solar Energy!" But I'll add that the News Release does a good job of laying out how research is done: first they've solved one of the problems, but other problems arose, namely interactions among the nano-antennas. Also, they don't really have a solution for storing the energy once they've converted it. But they have ideas for how they're going to solve those problems.
It's a news release that manages to give a good view of what experimental science is about.
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