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It’s hard to imagine that a top scientist like Miguel Contreras once stood on street corners selling handicrafts from his native Chile because he couldn’t land work as a scientist in this country. Today, he is a leading expert in solar technology, helping us all to build a future of renewable energy sources. He and his team at the National Renewable Energy Lab developed a solar cell that currently holds the world record for effectively generating electricity from sunlight.
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Design and test your own sunscreen on-line here.
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