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Wednesday, November 26, 2008 - 17:35 in Physics & Chemistry

Solar power is great for converting light energy into electricity. But what about harnessing light energy directly? After all, photons--discrete packets of light energy--exert force themselves, albeit on a pretty small scale. [More]

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