豆腐鹵水有望降低太陽能成本

????“為了應對氣候變化，我們需要加大對可再生能源系統的利用，”這項研究的參與者之一、國際應用系統分析研究所研究員費邊?瓦格納說。“但關鍵問題是，可再生系統真正能夠生產多少能源。”

????大規模部署太陽能的一個重大挑戰是，太陽并不是在所有時間都當空高照。這就意味著，能量必須要通過某種方式存儲下來。對于直接將太陽光轉換為電能的光伏電池來說，這是特別難以克服的困難，因為電力很難儲存。（財富中文網）

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????“In order to address climate change we need to greatly expand our use of renewable energy systems,” said IIASA researcher Fabian Wagner, who also worked on the study. “The key question, though, is how much energy renewable systems can actually deliver.”

????A huge challenge with deploying solar energy on a large scale is that the sun doesn’t shine all the time. That means that energy must be stored in some way. For photovoltaic (PV) cells, which convert sunlight directly to electricity, this is especially difficult to overcome, because electricity is difficult to store.