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SOLAR energy is part of the mix we need to avert climate catastrophe (21 June, p 32). Improved efficiency may be on the cards (page 42). But what of the risk that solar cells suck sun?
Four readers alerted us to a story appearing on a website called National Report in May: "Solar Panels Drain the Sun's Energy, Experts Say", it says. "Is this the biggest load of tosh you've ever come across?" asks David Cross.
"Scientists at the Wyoming Institute of Technology, a privately owned think tank," the National Report specifies, "discovered that energy radiated from the sun isn't merely captured in solar panels, but that energy is directly physically drawn from the sun by those panels, in a process they refer to as 'forced photovoltaic drainage'."
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