<\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\nUniversity of Toronto scientists are proving that the future of energy lies not just in solar farms, but on the walls of our cities. The shift from the silicon era to the era of \u201csolar ink\u201d and quantum dots will transform the face of metropolises.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Toronto\u2019s skyscrapers, once merely symbols of financial power, are becoming symbols of technological salvation for the planet. Every window reflecting a sunbeam will soon be able to turn that light into a charge for your laptop or energy for an elevator. While years of work remain to scale these panels to commercial sizes, the foundation for a vertical energy revolution has already been laid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Interesting fact: researchers have calculated that if all the glass surfaces of a modern metropolis like Toronto were covered in perovskite \u201csolar ink,\u201d the city could fully meet its electricity needs without any external sources.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Toronto is a forest of glass and steel. Its iconic skyline is defined by thousands of mirrored facades that shimmer with the reflection of Lake Ontario by day and glow with millions of lights by night. Yet, beneath this aesthetic beauty lies a serious energy challenge. These glass towers are massive resource consumers: they overheat […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":456,"featured_media":5278,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[338],"tags":[1999,2433,3293,2972,3182,2971,3290,3289,3295,3292,2311,3296,3291,1211,3294],"motype":[325],"moformat":[22],"moimportance":[833,30,33],"class_list":{"0":"post-5311","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-developments","8":"tag-ecology","9":"tag-energy","10":"tag-future-of-energy","11":"tag-green-energy","12":"tag-innovations","13":"tag-net-zero-emissions","14":"tag-perovskite-solar-cells","15":"tag-perovskites","16":"tag-quantum-dots","17":"tag-skyscrapers","18":"tag-solar-energy","19":"tag-solar-ink","20":"tag-solar-panels","21":"tag-toronto-3","22":"tag-urban-energy","23":"motype-eternal","24":"moformat-longrid-korotka","25":"moimportance-vichna","26":"moimportance-golovna-novyna","27":"moimportance-retranslyacziya-v-agregatory"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toronto.name\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toronto.name\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toronto.name\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toronto.name\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/456"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toronto.name\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5311"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/toronto.name\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5312,"href":"https:\/\/toronto.name\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5311\/revisions\/5312"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toronto.name\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toronto.name\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toronto.name\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toronto.name\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5311"},{"taxonomy":"motype","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toronto.name\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/motype?post=5311"},{"taxonomy":"moformat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toronto.name\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/moformat?post=5311"},{"taxonomy":"moimportance","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toronto.name\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/moimportance?post=5311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}