Its set to transform the World's Energy Supply by creating more efficient Solar Panel materials (amongst other things) by up to a factor of 100........
Think about that ...... up to x100 cost reduction and/or efficiency gain, that's going to bring down the cost of Solar energy Massively
Its already got two other organisations pitching in with another $15million to continue research. Betting is that Solar panels could be up to 100 times more efficient in a short period of time (less than ten years) due to the new data collated solely by BOINC Crunchers.
Its set to transform energy supply on a Global Scale. The "Twitch" Factor has gone through the roof on this one, and IBM (the main sponsors) are preening themselves rofl :toothy2:
In the scientific world its creating a big stir ...... some references to get you going:
http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2 ... olar-pants
http://bigthink.com/ideafeed/how-silico ... ergys-past
The Harvard Team Doing This:
http://cleanenergy.molecularspace.org/
Project Briefing:
http://cleanenergy.molecularspace.org/about-cep/
The BOINC WCG angle:
5 April 2013 Update: http://www.worldcommunitygrid.org/forum ... read,34966
https://secure.worldcommunitygrid.org/r ... verview.do