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Highly Efficient Solar Panel Systems Developed

Technological achievement

2026
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Astoundingly, researchers in MIT were able to increase the efficiency on the modern solar panel three-fold, capturing waste heat in a self-contained thermal transfer systems, that could use water or mineral oils that are not contaminated and only need to be replaced after a year's worth of time. The efficiency is so high that many nations, including the newly developed ones with corporate origins, started using them to supplement their power grids.

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