{"id":934,"date":"2010-10-03T23:16:24","date_gmt":"2010-10-04T06:16:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qpr.ca\/blog\/?p=934"},"modified":"2010-10-09T00:04:55","modified_gmt":"2010-10-09T07:04:55","slug":"artificial-leaves-from-north-carolina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/2010\/10\/03\/artificial-leaves-from-north-carolina\/","title":{"rendered":"Artificial Leaves from North Carolina"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to reader Colleen McGuire for pointing out\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailytech.com\/Artificial+Leaves+Act+as+Solar+Cells+Imitate+Nature\/article19725.htm\">this interesting development<\/a>. It does look promising if it  can be developed further, although as one of the researchers said, &#8220;We do not want to  overpromise at this stage, as the devices are still of relatively low  efficiency and there is a long way to go before this can become a  practical technology.&#8221;<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>An interesting <a href='http:\/\/092.me'>question<\/a> to ask about any solar  energy technology is what surface area would be needed in order to meet  all of the energy needs of a typical home.<\/p>\n<p>Another is how the  availability of sunlight relates to the timing of energy needs. Solar  energy is a good match where a major power need is for air conditioning  because both the location and timing of the need are associated with  lots of sunlight. Up in my part of the world though we never use air  conditioning and our major need is for heat and lighting in the winter  when we have only 8 hours of not very bright sunlight. (But even so, there are situations where solar power is useful here, especially for things that use the radiation directly such as water heating)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to reader Colleen McGuire for pointing out\u00a0 this interesting development. It does look promising if it can be developed further, although as one of the researchers said, &#8220;We do not want to overpromise at this stage, as the devices &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/2010\/10\/03\/artificial-leaves-from-north-carolina\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,16,6],"tags":[156,56],"class_list":["post-934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sustainability","category-technical-issues","category-technology","tag-solar-power","tag-sustainable-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=934"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/934\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":981,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/934\/revisions\/981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qpr.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}