• Bleeping Lobster@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    It’s not just a 10% increase in productivity, it produces fresh water as a byproduct:

    Furthermore, the photovoltaic leaf is capable of synergistically utilising the recovered heat to co-generate additional thermal energy and freshwater simultaneously within the same component, significantly elevating the overall solar utilisation efficiency from 13.2% to over 74.5%, along with over 1.1 L/h/m2 of clean water.