{"id":194,"date":"2009-09-07T18:56:27","date_gmt":"2009-09-07T17:56:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.morbidcornflakes.ch\/thduggies_blog\/?p=194"},"modified":"2009-09-07T18:56:27","modified_gmt":"2009-09-07T17:56:27","slug":"all-the-good-ideas-are-taken","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/2009\/all-the-good-ideas-are-taken","title":{"rendered":"All the good ideas are taken"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last Saturday I somehow came to thinking about solar cells &#8211; probably a combination of the science fiction book I was reading and the recurring nature of that topic at work (<a target=\"_blank\" title=\"Atomic Force Microscopes\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nanosurf.com\">atomic force microscopes<\/a> are used for solar cell R&#038;D).\u00c2\u00a0 Then I thought, hmm, wouldn&#8217;t it be cool to have <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"Transparent solar cells\" href=\"http:\/\/www.japanfs.org\/en\/pages\/025337.html\">transparent solar cells<\/a> so that we could make solar collectors at the beach under which we could enjoy the sun without the sunburn?<\/p>\n<p>Turns out the idea&#8217;s at least six years old, but I still don&#8217;t see my sunbrellas on any beaches&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last Saturday I somehow came to thinking about solar cells &#8211; probably a combination of the science fiction book I was reading and the recurring nature of that topic at work (atomic force microscopes are used for solar cell R&#038;D).\u00c2\u00a0 Then I thought, hmm, wouldn&#8217;t it be cool to have transparent solar cells so that we could make solar collectors at the beach under which we could enjoy the sun without the sunburn? Turns out the idea&#8217;s at least six years old, but I still don&#8217;t see my sunbrellas on any beaches&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thduggie.com\/thduggies_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}