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Like Tebow, these new solar cells are giving their "110 percent" week in and week out.
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Gains to quantum efficiency could yield around a 35 percent gain in conversion efficiency, the key metric
Using quantum dots -- tiny nanometer scale semiconductor crystals -- researchers at the
U.S. National Renewable Energy Laboratory
have cracked an important physical barrier and achieved levels of performance long considered impossible for a solar cell.
I. Giving its 110 Percent
The special design used by the team utilized
quantum dot nanocrystals
in the 1-20 nm range. The nanocrystals were composed of lead selenide treated with ethanedithol and hydrazine.
The photon-harvesting quantum dot-populated plane was sandwiched between a nanostructured zinc oxide layer and a thin gold electrode. A top layer was formed using a transparent conductor.
The overall design is in line with the "thin-film" methodology, which is currently rising in commercial production. Thin film cells tend to rely on scarce (i.e. expensive on a per mass basis) resources, such as rare earth metals. However, they use so little of them -- given the low mass of the thin film -- that they are not significantly more expensive than existing polycrystalline silicon cells. Generally, the only major extra cost to thin film is the initial cost of shifting the production technology.
The new NREL cell shatters the quantum efficiencies of previous designs, posting a peak external quantum efficiency of 114 ± 1% and a peak internal quantum efficiency of 130%.
In order to understand these numbers and how any power efficiency device can be more than "100 percent" efficient, you must understand the meaning of quantum efficiency (QE), which is overall quite different, but related to conversion efficiency (which will
be over 100 percent -- or even
to 100 percent -- in traditional physics).
The new cell is a thin film design. [Image Source: NREL]
Quantum efficiency is a measure of how many electrons come out of a cell for every photon that goes into the cell. Traditional silicon solar cells can achieve near 100 percent quantum efficiency at around 600 nm, but drop to around 80 percent on either end of the 500-1000 nm range (visible light is 380 to 740 nm). What this means is that the perfect "color" of light for silicon cells is orangish, while purple light can have a less than 45 percent conversion rate. As white light (sunlight) is a mixture of different wavelengths, the lower quantum efficiency of certain parts of the spectrum leads to lower average quantum efficiency.
External efficiency directly uses the number of input photons and the number of output electrons from a device. Internal efficiency, by contrast, uses theory to adjust these numbers to account for losses due to reflection and absorption.
We took the liberty of borrowing (Fair Use clause
) the charts for their 0.72 eV bandgap cell (their best-performing design) and comparing it to a traditional PC silicon cell, adding a helpful reference that shows what eVs roughly correspond to in the visible light range:
Comparing the external quantum efficiencies of the new NREL design (top) and the PS silicon design (bottom) over the visible light range (middle bar), we see that the new cell is slightly less efficient in capturing red-end light, but is much more efficient in capturing blue-end light.
(The black line in bottom graph and the blue line in the top right graph are the internal QEs.)
Overall this could grant up to a 35 percent efficiency gain versus today's standard PS silicon cells, according to the paper's authors.
II. You "Cannot Change the Laws of Physics" -- So Pick a Better Law!
The better blue-range performance comes thanks to multiple exciton generation (MEG), a unique quantum effect, which like other oddball quantum effects, occurs at an extremely small scale. In an MEG scenario, a single photon hits an atom, but rather than simply knocking off one electron via the
formation of an "exciton"
(an electron/hole pair), it puts multiple electrons into the flow.
MEG -- multiple exciton generation -- bends the traditional laws of physics.
[Image Source: Los Alamos Science & Tech Mag./U.S. Department of Energy's NNSA]
The exact quantum mechanics of this phenomena are being debated by physics. Currently the three leading hypotheses are:
Impact ionization
-- the high energy exciton ("X") becomes a "multi"-X, decaying through a dense range of multi-X states.
Eigenstate excitation
-- a mixed "virtual" state consisting of multi-X and X (think superposition) is triggered by photon energetic absorption.
Oscillatory decay
-- photon absorption creates standard X, but in the special material X waffles back and forth, switching identity from X to multi-X and back, slowly dropping in energy, in the process.
Without MEG, no solar cell can have more than a 100 percent internal or external QE. Hence no traditional solar cell has had greater than a 100 percent QE, even at its optimal part of the spectrum (e.g. orange light for silicon cells). This means that the overall
efficiency (CE) of a traditional cell -- even if perfectly optimized -- would not exceed 32 percent. Cumulatively this 100/32 (QE/CE) limit is named the Shockley-Queisser limit after its discoverers (S-Q Limit, for short).
As Scotty would say "you cannot change the laws of physics." But sometimes you
have your cake and eat it to, if only you find the right quirk in complex and poorly understood physics of our universe.
That's fundamentally what has been done here. MEG was first theorized by NREL researcher Arthur J. Nozik, Ph.D back in 2001, and was later confirmed to work in quantum dots, thanks to their special scale. This method is also known as "hot carrier generation". Using this quantum effect, later proved in the laboratory, the S-Q performance barrier could be shattered.
A useful property of quantum dots, is that their size determines their band gap, and hence the efficiency. Thus building the "perfect" MEG cell is simply a matter of picking the right size dots. As the bandgap tends to decrease as the quantum dot size and efficiency increase, the trick is to pick a quantum dot that is as big as possible, without losing the quantum effects.
Quantum dots don't just look pretty, they have some handy physics quirks too!
[Image Source: Elec-Intro]
Quantum dots also generate electron/hole pairs easier, with room temperature being enough excite (generate electricity) in some quantum dot materials.
The most recent paper was
[abstract] in the peer-reviewed journal
, with Matthew C. Beard taking the distinction of senior author and Octavi E. Semonin the distinction of being first author. Professor Novik was listed second to last, after four additional NREL colleagues.
III. Third Generation Solar Cells -- Finally a Solar Tech. Worth Investing In
"First" and "second" generation solar cells use various bulk semiconductors such as silicon, cadmium telluride, or copper indium gallium (di)selenide, which are then mixed with third, fourth, and fifth column (in the periodic table) elements to improve performance.
Ideally quantum dot cells could be combined with these traditional thin-film semiconductor cell designs, or applied using a mixture of nanocrystalline quantum dots optimized for different wavelengths. Either methodology could yield an optimized "third" generation (aka. next generation) design. Such a cell would enjoy the best of both worlds -- silicon cells' excellent red range performance, along with quantum dots excellent performance on the higher end (blue) of the visible light spectrum.
One approach to make a third generation ultra-efficient cell is to use a mixture of wavelength optimized quantum dots.
[Image Source: Los Alamos Science & Tech Mag./U.S. Department of Energy's NNSA]
While quantum dots are generally thought to be amenable to thin film cell "roll-to-roll" printing processes, the precise methods to do this on a mass production scale still have to be ironed out. Furthermore, the quantum dot cells measured in this study exhibited a pretty low 4.5 percent efficiency. While that sounds quite bad, it's largely a result of the lower amount of quantum dots used in the absorbing layer.
If quantum dot deposition techniques can be refined, the aforementioned "third" generation mixed cell could be finally realized. If somebody is going to do that, it will probably be Professor Nozik's team at the NREL. After all, they're who first discovered how to play the grand MEG prank on the laws of physics in the first place.
With these third generation solar cells, the technology may finally have the legs under it to compete with cheaper power generation methods (e.g. carbon-based fuels and nuclear energy). That's not only good news for mankind's terrestrial future; it's good news for future interstellar travellers, who will likely rely heavily on a mixture of solar and
nuclear (fusion) energy
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These curved micro barbells (or banana bars) are very versatile and can be worn in many different piercings, they are made out of Black PVD coated Grade 23 Titanium and internally threaded (which means that the disc has a thread which is screwed into the hole in the barbell). Internally threaded jewellery is very popular because it is easy to insert into piercings and less likely to cause any irritation when fitted because the whole bar is smooth.
Both of the discs are gem set and they are available in either 3 or 4mm with clear jewels. The bar is 1.2mm (16 gauge) and available in 6mm, 7mm, 8mm, 9mm, 10mm or 12mm lengths. |
Measuring Your Piercing - Jewellery Measuring Guide
Wearing the correct size of body jewellery is very important. If you wear a size that is too small it could easily irritate or hurt your piercing. If your jewellery is too big it can easily catch your clothes resulting in a damaged piercing.
The measurements to consider with each piece of jewellery are as follows:
Length / Diameter of the jewellery. (A / B in the diagram above)
The above example pictures show you the measurements that you need to take for a Banana Bar, a Ball Closure Ring (BCR), a Barbell and a Labret. Only measure a piece of jewellery that currently fits you correctly.
An alternative method is to directly measure your piercing between both holes using a ruler, although this can sometimes be difficult on your own.
Thickness / Gauge of the jewellery (C in the diagram)
The most common sizes are as follows:
* Navel, Tongue and Nipple jewellery - 1.6mm (or 14 Gauge)
* Eyebrow - 1.2mm (16 Gauge)
* Nose - 1.0mm (18 Gauge)
* Labret piercings are usualy either 1.2mm (16 Gauge) or 1.6mm (14 Gauge)
These are the the standard thicknesses of body jewellery that we sell, so unless you have an unusual piercing, you do not have to worry about this measurement.
We often get asked what are the sizes of jewellery in my country. In Europe thickness is shown in mm but in other parts of the world people use gauge. The following table should help you convert the sizes.
Thickness Conversion * 1mm = 18 gauge * 1.2mm = 16 gauge * 1.6mm = 14 gauge * 2mm = 12 gauge * 2.4mm = 10 gauge * 3.2mm = 8 gauge * 4mm = 6 gauge * 5mm = 4 gauge * 6mm = 2 gauge * 8mm = 0 gauge | Length/Diameter Conversion * 6mm = 1/4" * 8mm = 5/16" * 10mm = 3/8" * 11mm = 7/16" * 12mm = 1/2" * 14mm = 9/16" * 16mm = 5/8" * 18mm = 11/16" * 19mm = 3/4" * 21mm 13/16" |
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City "exercise its right" to remove those looking to stand in the way of "progress"
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for a "smart grid" for some time, with more high-tech meters that can access more detailed information on power usage. Proponents argue the
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cut down on waste and mistakes. Critics cite a variety of concerns ranging from national security to health.
The two arrested women -- Jennifer Stahl and Malia "Kim" Bendis -- were leaders of an anti-smart meter group dubbed "Naperville Smart Meter Awareness". The group's website links to a critical article on the project which points out its $23.6M USD cost, only $11M USD of which came from a federal grant.
Even Mark Curran the Naperville director of electrical utilities admits that the meter rollout has taken "longer than we anticipated", after being fraught with technical delays.
Arrest photos of Jennifer Stahl (left) and Malia Bendis (right) [Image Source: Naperville PD]
Aside from finances, though, there appears to be a relatively strong luddite component of the group's campaign to block the meters. The group links to a number of speculative websites that compile information on the supposed "health risks" of smart meters. The commentary on one site (
) echoes the medically unfounded claims that similar campaigns have leveled
against cell phone towers
Wi-Fi networks
. Comments the site:
This is of great concern because the exposure to microwave and radiowave radiation from these meters is involuntary and continuous. The transmitting meters may not even comply with Federal Communications Commission (FCC) "safety" standards ... However, those standards were initially designed to protect an average male from tissue heating (cooking) during a brief exposure. These standards were not designed to protect a diverse population from the non-thermal effects of continuous exposure to microwave and radiowave radiation. Therefore, these "safety" standards were not designed to protect the public from health problems under the circumstances which the meters are being used.
To date, there has been no comprehensive peer-reviewed work supporting the notion that Wi-Fi or cell phone signals cause cancer or other health effects, but that hasn't stopped critics from suggesting that undiscovered risks may indeed exist.
Naperville Smart Meter Awareness Board of Directors (L-R): Jennifer Stahl (Secretary), Kim Bendis (President), and Board Members Amanda Rykov, Lisa Rooney, Tom Glass
[Image Source: Naperville Smart Meter Awareness]
Despite the shaky science, one must wonder whether the city's strong-arm tactics are justified for citizens who don't want the meters. Ms. Stahl's arrest came at 4:30 when police invaded her backyard with the installation crew after cutting the bicycle lock she used on her fence gate. When police found Ms. Stahl standing in front of her old-fashioned "dumb" meter refusing to move, they arrested her and charged her with interfering with a police officer and preventing access to customer premises.
Ms. Bendis's arrest proceeded similarly. She was charged with attempted eavesdropping and resisting a peace officer.
A defiant Ms. Stahl told reporters, "It was forced on my house today. It was really a violation. I violated something, but I've been violated too so I guess we're now in a society of violating one another. I have not done the work of attempting to educate the community and advocating for the right of anybody in Naperville to refuse the smart meter just to stand off to the side."
Ms. Bendis declined to comment to reporters, citing advice from her lawyer.
Both women were released within hours. City Manager Doug Krieger defends the arrests, commenting, "The previous installation attempts were met with some resistance and we wanted to ensure our employees' safety. The city has always had and maintains the right to access our equipment, and today we were simply exercising that right."
The Elster Rex2 smart meter (left) is being installed in homes, supported by wireless stations attached to poles and other infrastructure (right).
[Image Source: Naperville Smart Meter Awareness/Elster]
While the cost is one reasonable criticism against smart meter projects, another more ground criticism is security. Prominent sources, including defense contractor Lockheed Martin Comp. (LMT), have suggested that Chinese or other sophisticated
rivals of the U.S. could "hack into" smart meter networks
and use attacks to cripple or otherwise interfere with the U.S. power grid. If this premise holds true it would represent a tremendous new national security risk.
Another interesting criticism
comes from security researchers
[PDF], who report that smart meter data, if carefully analyzed, could reveal intimate details of one's life. For example, a house hooked up to smart water and electric meters could allow a third party to track when people shower, whether a home alarm is on, and how often people use their televisions.
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Joe Biden explained President Barack Obama's gun control measures by saying that "It is about civility in society," according to the Huffington Post. "This is about the coarsening of our culture."
Biden, who delivered remarks to a group of American mayors, joked, "As one hunter told me, if you got 12 rounds, it means you already missed the deer 11 times. ... You should pack the sucker in. You don't deserve a gun, period, if you're that bad."
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Better take a look around Joe.
Guns are not what is coursing society.
Ya ever been to a gun range Joe?
Politest people on the planet.
No massacres.
TV, movies, government schools handing condoms and encouraging 11 year olds to rut like animals in heat...these aren't coarsening our culture?
Sit down, Joe.
Biden, who delivered remarks to a group of American mayors, joked, "As one rape survivor told me, if you got 12 rounds, it means you already missed the rapist 11 times. ... You should pack the sucker in. You don't deserve a gun, period, if you're that bad."
I don't hunt deer Joe. F*ck you. Civil enough for you? you %^&*ing %^&* $%^#$@.
I almost believe it!
The National Second Moron speaks again.
How can a rational being, aware of the definition of criminal, suggest that an appeal to civility will have the slightest positive influence on those who promote and embrace the basest criminal nature of man?
What can be a coarser influence on our culture than elected officials who give lip service to our Constitution, but totally do whatever whim of animal instinct pushes them to do?
that's just joe, turning the 2nd amendment into a big old joke.
i can't believe we have this sh1tstain as a vp of the USA.
Biden: Gun Control 'Is About Civility in Communist Society' "This is about the crystalization of my brain cells."
Wasn't Biden quoting Cuomo about the comment about needing 10 rounds to kill a deer means you suck if you cant kill it with one shot? Cuomo said almost exactly the same thing on his grandiose anti-gun tirade.
Which political ideology brought the concept of oral sex down to 10 year olds (or younger) as a common course of conversation and show no outrage ? (Rhetorical questions)
Really, Joe? REALLY? Your boss claimed that Paul Ryan wanted to kill seniors and that Romney gave some woman cancer and basically murdered her and you have the utter gall to talk about civility?!?! I would say what I think about you, but I am going to not say anything and save the mods the hassle of deleting it.
Meanwhile, his grandkids attend a private school guarded by more than eleven armed men.
"Civility is a big #%£ing deal. "
- J. Robinette Biden
Neither of these guys have contributed anything to society but death and degradation.
The Democrats have no moral high ground.
Yes, you may think I am a little slow but it wasn't until I saw/heard his speech( until I couldn't stand it anymore) surrounded by children when he was not even speaking of the 2nd amendment and about grandfathered rifles, about hunting and target weaponry when I came to the conclusion he was not just using those children as a human shield for his arrogance and war against the Bill of Rights and us, but he has seriously declared war upon us.
Yes, I've seen the signs but I tried giving the benefit of the doubt but it's hard to have this guy I'm supposed to respect and be proud of tearing apart businesses I've seen for years, churches with his "tax mandate/health mandate" the excuse to go after our weapons in which WE ARE THE LAW ABIDING ONES, NOT THE GANGSTERS AND HIS MUSLIM B-HOOD HOMIES(Morsi's coming to the WH to visit his bruthas and plan the next stage with Soros on the TV thingy as they pray to the prince of Alinsky).
I feel like I've been wearing that jersey from the football strike year,"He Hate Me," since pre election. And so it goes, the guy is still destroying America, attacking the fabric of America, attacking out morality, kicking God in the butt and spitting in the "apple of his eye( Israel/ Jews/Jerusalem)."
He has done his dam**est backing us into the corner, calling names like homophobes, extremists, painting us as dumb arsed hicks and has the media do his dirty work while he ocks us behind superior fire power. Oh it must be nice living as king. I'd love to march on DC but I'm just an lold Bible thumping orator clinging to my Bible and my guns. I will still pray for him, but I will no longer even give him the time of day. he has fired volleys of first shots; he's verbally slandered us and is now forcing his mandate( as evidenced by M B-hood, Hasan F&F, Bengazi, gun control, 1st amendment, slander, libel, refusing to negotiate, lying, treason, his religious belief in global warming, his belief in murdering children no matter the trimester and yet his hypocrisy is evident and he's trying to destroy Christian churches[Catholic for one] Hobby Lobby and Chic-Fil-A. Oh he hate us, he hate us and he wanna kill us.
Get ready, I sense the other shoe will drop. be safe for i can merely pray for ya'll but it's going to get dark, real dark and evil round here, way worse than the first four years of pandering to the evil left.
I hope when I awaken tomorrow morning, I do not regret this post written so late at night. May the Lord Bless you all and keep you, may His face shine upon you and keep you in His Light, in His glory, in His Hands, in His grace and Mercy.
That hunter must have been at the closed down restaurant that Joe goes to.
** THIS JUST IN ** Audobon Society names new bird species after Joe Biden: Idiotus Americanus is a small, deep blue bird with no plummage on top of its head. It makes a wierd "Joe Biden" sound and bangs into objects constantly. It annoys farmers by pecking at roosters in the middle of the night. It is a danger to drivers because it crashes into windshields with no harm to itself. It is impervious to bullets, poison and traps. Laughter is the only way to get rid of it.
Well, it's a "big #ing deal" — ain't that so, jackass?
I find people have better manners when you point a gun at them.
"If you want to talk to me like that, smile."
"With a gun against my belly, I - I always smile!"
I hear she was dating Manti Te'o.
"An armed Society is truly a polite Society"- Thomas Jefferson.
The 2nd Amendment is NOT about hunting.
There is no clause in the 2nd Amendment that nullifies the right to keep and bear arms for those who are poor shots.
There are no exceptions to the right to keep and bear arms in the 2nd Amendment.
I'm not joking - if you need more than ten shots to get a deer, you should go get more range time. I'm also not joking - the Second Amendment is not about hunting. There are a whole lot of Americans who look at Obama much the way we look at other enemies of our country, and protection from those who trample the Constitution looks to us like the reason the Second Amendment was created.
And, the Second Amendment is NOT about hunting. It's about freedom; and protection from tyrants (domestic and foreign).
Biden has done more to coarsen the culture than any VP in history. Guess that makes him highly qualified to speak on the matter... (/sarc)
Hey Joe,
If it takes your beloved Narcotics Agents 72 rounds to kill one young Marine trying to defend his family, whats your joke for that. And did the ATF make sure the mexican cartels only have 10 round magazines in those guns your boss gifted them? And I'm sure we filled out the proper forms and such.
I can't wait for the next Merriam-Webster dictionary to be published. New word: Biden. Definition: $hitstain in shorts. And it will have about a dozen more definitions to follow.
Joe, if you don't see what's coming you're a fool. If you do and you're going along anyway that just makes you another fascist, another national socialist.
'Coarsening of the culture' is liberal-speak for ' people daring to question our motives'.
joe... you are a ****ing idiot... a ****ing communist idiot.
When this is over we will have to invite the British back over to burn the White house down. We will never be able to get the smell of sulfur out of it.
Took the words right out of my keyboard.
Strange in my dictionary his picture was under the heading grinning fuckweasel.
And cross referenced with the word "crapweasel"
Oh I didn't know about that. Thanks for the info. 8*)
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with another — but it might not be obvious how to extend this strategy to allow comparing a Car
with a Truck
. For example, every Car
might have a serial number, and every Truck
might have a serial number, but these two kinds of serial numbers might be in completely different formats.
One's first temptation might be to use the obvious methods of comparing serial numbers between two objects of the same type, and then to say that two objects of different types are unrelated. In other words, define the < operation on two Vehicle
objects to return false unless the two objects have the same type. In that case, < should compare the objects' contents (serial numbers, or any other of the objects' aspects we might choose).
This strategy is a disaster. To see why, consider two Car
objects c1
and c2
, and a Truck
object t
. Under this definition, c1
is unrelated to t
, t
is unrelated to c2
, but one of c1 < c2
and c2 < c1
will be true. This behavior violates the C++ rules for order relations, because the unrelated operation is not transitive. In effect, when you're designing a comparison function, you should think of unrelated
as meaning conceptually equivalent
With this insight, let's revisit our original problem: We know how to compare two Car
s, we know how to compare two Truck
s, and we need to figure out how to compare a Car
with a Truck
. We can imagine this problem as if we had two stacks of cards, representing Car
s and Truck
s, respectively, and we want a way to shuffle these stacks of cards together into a single stack, while still preserving the ordering within each of the original stacks.
If the problem is described that way, it should be obvious that the easiest way to solve it is to put one stack on top of the other. Translating this solution into a comparison function is trivial: We decree that an object of one type is always less than an object of the other type, and continue to use the comparisons that we have already defined within each type. Another way to look at this solution is that each object becomes a string of two symbols, where the first one is the object's type, and we define ordering as dictionary ordering over these two-symbol strings.
The more general kind of "shuffling" is harder to define, because we need to be able to compare objects of different types while ensuring that the results of such comparisons are always consistent with each other. However, using dictionary order suggests one way of doing it: We find a string — such as a serial number — that describes each object, and then create a pair in which the first component is that string and the second component represents the type.
This strategy suggests a general technique: Represent each object's contents with a canonical value — a value of a single, well-defined type that already has an order relation defined on it. Then use the canonical values for comparison, perhaps appending the object's type if we want two objects of different types with the same canonical value to be ordered rather than conceptually equivalent.
That's the general strategy. Now it's your turn. Imagine an inheritance hierarchy with Number
at its root and Integer
and Real
each derived from Number
. Assume that an Integer
is a container for an int
, and Real
is a container for a float
. How would you define a comparison operation between two Number
s? How would you implement it? Beware: This problem is nowhere near as simple as it looks.


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Vessel sinks: According to a 2010 Apartment Therapy survey, vessel sinks look dated. That was back in 2010. By now, kitchen design has moved toward functionality and efficiency. Buyers are looking for large basin sinks, and there is a special premium put on large under-mount sinks. They are easy to clean, and give cooks plenty of room to work. If you're thinking of installing a vessel sink as a hand-washing sink on a kitchen island, you'll attract more buyers with a simple under-mount sink.
Pull out racks: A Realtor.org, a reliable source of information on what's happening in real estate markets, says that pull out racks are going out of style. They also note that lazy Susans, appliance garages, and tall pantries are less popular than they used to be. Keep the storage plentiful, but simple, without too many bells and whistles.
Solid surface back-splash: According to the National Kitchen and Bath Association, solid surface back-splashes are being superseded by glass, granite, natural stone, and tile back-splashes. Although it can be tempting to match the back-splash to the counter, if you have a solid surface counter top, you'll make your house more attractive to buyers
Huge kitchens: According to the trend-watchers at Elle Decor, kitchens with a smaller footprint are in. This is part of a general trend toward smaller, more efficient housing. It is possible to build a gourmet kitchen that's fully functional and even high-end. Surfaces, new appliances, neutral colors, and simple-but-plentiful storage will make a kitchen more attractive to buyers than sheer size will. Also, many gourmet cooks, like PBS cooking host Christina Pirello, actually prefer to work in smaller kitchens.
Hanging pot racks: While hanging pot racks are an excellent form of storage, they can drive buyers away when they show up in real estate listing pictures. Why? Hanging pot racks can obscure the view of the rest of the kitchen in online listing photos, and potential buyers might think that there is a lack of storage, so therefore the seller has hung the pots and pans from the ceiling.
Cherry wood cabinets: According to the National Kitchen and Bath Association, the demand for cherry wood cabinets, which were in high demand last year, has diminished. For an up to the minute look, talk to your carpenter about building cabinets out of a lesser-used but attractive wood, like alder, or even bamboo.
Stainless steel appliances: There was a time when stainless steel appliances were a must when staging your house for a sale. That time has passed. According to Phoenix, AZ real estate broker Lief Swanson, who publishes the blog Ugly House Photos (read it if you never have; it's excellent), Phoenix remodelers are seeing more demand for classic white or black appliances than stainless steel. Swanson says it's because the buyers whom he encounters are afraid of the marks and hand prints that inevitably show up on stainless steel appliances.
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Chaya Kurtz writes for Networx.com.