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From: hutch@shark.UUCP (Stephen Hutchison)
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Subject: Re: Very Cheap Solar Cells
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Date: Mon, 20-Aug-84 14:09:35 EDT
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< The robot doesn't seem too energetic since it got a tan >

Has anyone looked into organic solar collection?  Plants do a real
fine job of collecting and storing solar energy;  does anyone know
how efficient they are (not 100% by any means, since they are usually
sensitive in a fairly narrow bandwidth of yellow-green) ??

An organic compound engineered to translate sunlight into ATP and
another that turned ATP into electricity would be an interesting
way to power a car. . .

OK, I know, this is all just a bit beyond current state-of-the-art.
But not too far, I suspect.

Hutch