New material, manufacturing process use sun's heat for cheaper renewable electricity

• Scientists have developed a new material and manufacturing process that would make one way to use solar power as heat energy more efficient in generating electricity.
• Solar power accounts for less than 2 percent of U.S. electricity but could make up more than that if the cost of electricity generation and energy storage for use on cloudy days and at nighttime were cheaper.
• Solar power doesn't only generate electricity via panels in farms or on rooftops. Another option is concentrated power plants that run on heat energy.
• This would mean dramatic reductions in human-made carbon dioxide emissions from electricity production.

SOURCE : SCIENCE DAILY