Solar panels are pretty impressive, but just how impressive are they?

Is it possible that solar panels could use moonlight to power?

It's Wednesday, August 14th, and you're listening to Science Friday. I'm Cyfry producer Kathleen Davis. If you've been following the clean energy

sector for a while you'll know that solar panels have advanced tremendously over the past decades.

And we see them more often too, on roofs and in fields.

Last month at Science Friday Live in Boulder, Colorado, Ira spoke to two researchers at the cutting edge of solar panel technology.

Let's take a listen.

I gotta tell you, this week I've been driving all through Colorado and I've noticed something really interesting that I was very happy to see and that was a lot of solar panels sprouting up.

Yeah, I mean, if you listen to the show, you know I'm a huge fan of solar

energy. I have solar panels on my roof. And if you've had your eyes on the solar

industry for as long as I have been more And if you've had your eyes on the solar industry

for as long as I have been watching it,

you know that solar technology has come a long way

and it is rapidly changing.

They become more efficient, they're less expensive,

and that's what we're gonna talk about now.

And lucky for us, we have a lot of groundbreaking work

on solar energy done right here in Colorado.

So joining me to talk about the new research on solar panels are my guest, Dr. Joseph

Berry, senior research scientists at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden, Colorado.

That's, yeah, welcome to Science Friday.

And Dr. Laura Shullis, Senior Scientist also at And,

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