Homemade Solar Cells
Senior Editor, Materials My reporting as MIT Technology Review’s senior editor for materials has taken me, among other places, to the oil-rich deserts of the Middle East and to China, where mountains are being carved away to build the looming cities. Growing up, I lived for a time in the Philippines, where I knew people who lit their tiny homes with single lantern batteries or struggled to breathe through the dense diesel fumes of Manila, so I have a feel for the pressing need around the world for both cheap energy and clean energy.
Homemade Solar Panels From Scratch
Make a solar cell in your kitchen A solar cell is a device for converting energy from the sun into electricity. The high-efficiency solar cells you can buy at Radio. Cuprous oxide is a semiconductor, just like doped silicon, and was one of the first materials experimented with as a by nba123.