No, the blacked-out rear quarters of your '90 CRX aren't going to start powering your hooptywoofer anytime soon, but a new window treatment developed at MIT that functions as a solar concentrator promises to finally bring solar windows to the masses. Based on similar work done in the '70s, the dye mixture pulls in light at a range of wavelengths and re-emits it to solar cells at the edges of the w
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