"The hotter it gets, the less efficient photovoltaic solar panels tend to become. Typically, as photons hit the panels, the solar cells convert some of them into electricity. The remaining photons produce heat energy, which escapes the power generation process.
Engineers from Stanford University, however, have found away to capture both the light and heat energy produced by the sun. Published this week in the journal Nature Materials, their research demonstrates that coating a solar cell?s semi-conducting material with cesium allows the cell to use both light and heat to make electricity."
Is quoted from your reference but your assertion is:
"But did you know that solar technology actually gets less efficient the hotter it gets?
That?s the thread of a new article published in the Nature Materials journal and discussed by intelligent energy expert Melissa Mahony over on our Smart Planet sister site."
Do you not even read your own references? That is not the "thread" of the article. The "thread" of the article is that new technologies are being developed to harness the heat in addition to the light, not to "start rethinking the possibilities of which renewable energy options might be best suite to their climate."
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