[Mitty @ Jun 16th 2007 1:09PM]

It would be good if these things could be written by someone with a bit of education. For example, sunlight doesn't have "layers" -- the device does.

[ug @ Jun 17th 2007 1:00AM]

You are expecting intelligence from an editor who uses the trendy terms like "drop = release" and "lappie = laptop" and who uses every excuse imaginable to use HTML strikethrough.

[All thieves should be slaughtered @ Jun 16th 2007 2:09PM]

You need to learn to read. The article's author wrote: "The unique semiconductors used...can capture three layers of the solar spectrum..."
Nowhere does it say "sunlight", but the light from the sun does have different wave frequencies (light exists as both particle and wave form).

[Mitty @ Jun 16th 2007 4:07PM]

"You need to learn to read." Actually reading is not the problem.

The problem is that sunlight (or the solar emission spectrum, if you prefer fancier words) does not have any notion of "layers." Anyone with a modicum of scientific education would know this and would then go to the source article to figure out what information this author has gotten screwed up.

In the article, we find that the cells "employ three layers of semiconductors." _That_ is what the author garbled into his nonsensical sentence about the "solar spectrum" having layers and his equally nonsensical notion that conventional "collectors" collect only one of these "layers."

Particles and waves have nothing to do with it. You can now go and stand over on the other side of the room with the rest of the scientifically ignorant.