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Sunpower Screen
A solar cell array used to provide power for a vehicle. (Read the full article)
| "The sun-power screen is more explicitly presented in Heinlein's slightly earlier story "Let There be Light," published May 1940, reprinted in _The Man Who Sold the Moon_.
http://troynovant.com/Franson/Heinlein/Let-There-Be-Light.html" (Geoffrey A. Landis 9/28/2005 11:58:36 AM ) |
| "I have designed such a solar cell and I used a different chemical compound to assorb protons and move electrons. It works great. My product would in volumn would be less than $1.00 U.S. per watt..." (Jim McKirdy 8/19/2007 6:23:38 AM ) |
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