Japanese scientists develop solar cell with integrated capacitor

Of course, if you have reasonable (okay, more than reasonable from where
we are at the moment) access to space you might be able to get the
platinum from asteroids.

Sigh! It's nice to dream.

Darren Brown
Canberra Australia

In my continual search to answer TangoMan's concerns about storage costs

for ground-based PV energy:

http://www.platinum.matthey.com/media_room/1099587603.html

> Japanese scientists say they have developed a platinum-based
> application capable of converting solar energy into an electrical
> charge that can be stored.
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