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Two new studies offer signs that this could be changing quickly. One offers
Two new studies offer signs that this could be changing quickly. One offers
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Two new studies offer signs that this could be changing quickly. One offers a new way to produce solar cells more cheaply and safely than current methods. The other indicates that concentrating solar power, which uses the sun’ s energy to heat up a liquid that drives a turbine, could supply "a substantial amount of current energy demand."
In a study released Wednesday in journal Nature, University of Liverpool’s Jon Major and several other researchers announced that they had found that magnesium chloride, which is used in making tofu, bath salts and applied to roads in the winter could replace cadmium chloride in the making of second-generation, thin-film solar cells.
Speaking in a teleconference from Copenhagen, Major said magnesium chloride, which is extracted from seawater, would cost $0,001 per gram compared to $0.3 for cadmium chloride. It would also eliminate the challenges and expense of handling cadmium chloride, a highly toxic compound that requires elaborate safety measures to protect workers during its manufacture and a special disposal process when panels are no longer needed.
"So what we have done without any loss of efficiency is to replace expensive and highly toxic material with one that is completely
benign
and much lower in cost in the process," Major said. "This offers a great cost benefit for production of these kinds of solar cells and could help make a step change in the production of them." The solar market is currently dominated by panels made with silicon. In a bid to make solar more competitive, there is growing interest from companies like First Solar in developing solar cells using cadmium telluride, which is more efficient and more flexible so it could be applied many more surfaces including windows. To make these cadmium telluride cells, a thin layer of cadmium chloride is applied to the solar cell, and then heated up in a furnace. This is considered the activation process, Major said, helping to boost a cell’s efficiency from around 1 percent to as much as 20 percent. In a bid to find a safer alternative, Major and his team first looked at sodium chloride, but found the efficiency was about half of cadmium chloride. Another option was difluoro chloromethane but that has been linked to ozone depletion and its use has been restricted by international agreements.
They then turned to magnesium chloride and found that it was just as efficient as comparable and could be applied without any expensive safety equipment.
Major said magnesium chloride isn’t being used at the moment, but was hopeful it "would be taken up by research and hopefully by industry once this work is publicized."
Steve Krum, the director of corporate communications for First Solar, would only say cadmium chloride remains "critical part" of its production process and that it was not a "major cost driver in our manufacturing process." [br] Why do many companies become more interested in developing solar cells using cadmium telluride?
选项
A、Because cadmium telluride is more efficient and more flexible.
B、Because cadmium chloride is needed in the process.
C、Because it is much safer than magnesium chloride.
D、Because it can complete the developing process independently.
答案
A
解析
细节题。根据题目中companies和interested in developing solar cells usingcadmium telluride可定位至第四段there is growing interest from companies like FirstSolar in developing solar cells using cadmium telluride.which is more efficient and moreflexible so it could be applied many more surfaces including windows.即诸如第一太阳能公司(First Solar)这类企业对开发碲化镉制成的太阳能电池越来越感兴趣。这种材质更有效率,更加灵活,可应用于包括窗户在内的更多表面。A项符合文意,故正确。
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