The Anonymous Widower

Progress Is A Lot Of Small Steps

In Liverpool University’s Insight magazine, there is an article entitled A Surprising New Use For Tofu Ingredient. The details are here on the University’s web site, This is the first paragraph.

The chemical used to make tofu and bath salts could also replace a highly toxic and expensive substance used to make solar cells, a University study published in the journal Nature has revealed.

It appears that a researcher has found that you can replace expensive and highly toxic cadium chloride in solar cells with cheap and safe magnesium chloride.

Small developments like this make me think that the day when I fit solar panels to my flat roof a bit closer.

December 5, 2014 - Posted by AnonW | World | Energy, Liverpool University, Science