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Solar cell technology.

Date Submitted: 07/07/2003 16:13:00
Length: 9 pages (2401 words)
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Solar cell technology dates back to 1839, when the French physicist Antoine-Cesar Bequerel observed that shining light on an electrode submerged in a conductive solution would create an electric current. Later in 1877, Charles Fritts constructed the first true solar cell by using junctions formed by coating the semiconductor selenium with an ultra thin layer of gold. His devices were very inefficient but they were a start. In 1930, both the selenium cell and the copper oxide cell …

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…blow then that means there are no waves and the power plants under water aren't producing any energy either. So as you can see solar power has a lot of good effects. There wouldn't be as much air pollution, prices would definitely be lowered, and the ozone layer would be thicker and people and animals would be healthier and less would be dying from getting sick. Hopefully in the future it will be like this.

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