{"id":104773,"date":"2009-12-14T13:35:43","date_gmt":"2009-12-14T18:35:43","guid":{"rendered":"tag:greentechnolog.com,2009:\/\/1.2073"},"modified":"2009-12-14T13:35:43","modified_gmt":"2009-12-14T18:35:43","slug":"solar-cell-efficiency-funding-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/104773","title":{"rendered":"Solar Cell Efficiency Funding Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        Latest round of funding will support basic research that may yield a solar cell efficiency breakthrough.  &#8230;<a href=\"http:\/\/chem.ucr.edu\/index.php?main=faculty&#038;facsort=profile&#038;faculty=bocian\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/chem.ucr.edu\/disp_image_fac.php?act=view&#038;iid=Bocian\" align=\"right\" title=\"UCR Professor Bocian\" width=\"150\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"12\" vspace=\"12\"><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230;   &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.facultydirectory.ucr.edu\/cgi-bin\/pub\/public_individual.pl?faculty=207\">Bocian<\/a> cites lack of funding for basic research as the reason why today\u2019s solar cells have only 6-11 percent energy efficiency.  But there is hope in Congress\u2019s recent approval of funding for PARC and 45 similar <a href=\"http:\/\/www.er.doe.gov\/bes\/efrc.html\">Energy Frontier Research Centers<\/a> (EFRCs) through the Department of Energy. &#8221;   &#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Via UC Riverside: <a href=\"http:\/\/newsroom.ucr.edu\/news_item.html?action=page&amp;id=2222\">$1 million to study light-harvesting compounds<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Dept of Energy support a portfolio of research centers focused on renewable energy.  &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.er.doe.gov\/bes\/efrc.html\">Energy Frontier Research Centers<\/a>: &#8220;he 46 EFRCs, which are to be funded at $2\u20135 million per year each for a planned initial five-year period, were selected from a pool of some 260 applications received in response to a solicitation issued in 2008 by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), Office of Science. &#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Latest round of funding will support basic research that may yield a solar cell efficiency breakthrough. &#8230; &#8230; &#8220;Bocian cites lack of funding for basic research as the reason why today\u2019s solar cells have only 6-11 percent energy efficiency. But there is hope in Congress\u2019s recent approval of funding for PARC and 45 similar Energy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":755,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/755"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104773\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}