{"id":473,"date":"2004-11-08T05:49:40","date_gmt":"2004-11-08T10:49:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/2004\/11\/08\/photocapacitor-aka-solar-cell-and-batt"},"modified":"2004-11-08T05:49:40","modified_gmt":"2004-11-08T10:49:40","slug":"photocapacitor-aka-solar-cell-and-battery-combined","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/2004\/11\/08\/photocapacitor-aka-solar-cell-and-battery-combined\/","title":{"rendered":"Photocapacitor aka solar cell and battery combined"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a435'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n This might be useful.  A Japanese reseacher has managed to combine<br \/>\n a solar cell and a battery into one structure.   They dub it the<br \/>\n photocapacitor.  Seems currently that the charging voltage and the<br \/>\n charging-discharge capacity need to be increased to be useful at a practical<br \/>\n level.   We can translate that as, &#8220;it works, but it doesn&#8217;t work well<br \/>\n enough for you to work with at home.&#8221;  But a very useful step if you ask<br \/>\n me.   Can&#8217;t wait until these are in mass production which might be<br \/>\n sometime in the next decade&#8230; I hope.\n <\/p>\n<p>\n <a href=\"http:\/\/physicsweb.org\/articles\/news\/8\/11\/3\/1\">Read the announcement yourself<\/a><br \/>\n <br \/>\n <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cc.toin.ac.jp\/UNIV\/labo\/labot-mysk.htm\">The Laboratory it came from<\/a>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This might be useful. A Japanese reseacher has managed to combine a solar cell and a battery into one structure. They dub it the photocapacitor. Seems currently that the charging voltage and the charging-discharge capacity need to be increased to be useful at a practical level. We can translate that as, &#8220;it works, but it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":704,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1212],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tagme"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/704"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}