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Solar panels could be about to get much better at capturing sunlight (www.newscientist.com)

submitted 1 year ago by Spudger@lemmy.sdf.org to c/science

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[–] Klinkertinlegs 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I like that they put “could” in there. A lot of articles claim improvements “are” coming to solar or battery, then it never happens.

[–] douglasg14b 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

M8, this is science, we're on c/science. Something that can do something but isn't verified in a specific environment is a "could". This is how literally every single advancement is made.

So I'm rather confused why it's distasteful to have a feed of new information that we didn't know before. Which is scientific news.

[–] Helix 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They didn't claim it's distasteful, quite the opposite.

[–] douglasg14b 1 points 1 year ago

I suppose tone is rather difficult on the internet (see: Poe's Law). To me the tone was one of distaste/unsatisfaction with the "could". As if OP is upset that hey keep seeing "could" but no actual implementation.