{"id":622610,"date":"2026-09-21T07:02:17","date_gmt":"2026-09-21T07:02:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/622610\/"},"modified":"2026-09-21T07:02:17","modified_gmt":"2026-09-21T07:02:17","slug":"china-tests-first-practical-submarine-solar-power-plant-at-10-metre-depth-in-the-open-sea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/622610\/","title":{"rendered":"China tests first practical submarine solar power plant at 10-metre depth in the open sea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a breakthrough that could power the future of <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/science\/article\/3367337\/chinese-scientists-find-extremely-high-value-underwater-gold-mine-pacific?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">underwater operations<\/a>, Chinese scientists have built and tested the world\u2019s first submarine solar farm, successfully operating a perovskite-based photovoltaic system at a depth of 10 metres (33 feet) in the open sea.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The submerged array charged batteries and powered an LED panel, proving that solar energy can be harvested even in the dim, blue-green twilight of the ocean.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The achievement by a team from Yunnan University was published on September 11 in the journal Joule.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In a breakthrough that could power the future of underwater operations, Chinese scientists have built and tested the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":622611,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[114,204154,28989,85,46,281373,181183,281371,53607,281375,281374,281376,281377,281372],"class_list":["post-622610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-cell-press","tag-chinese-scientists","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-joule","tag-perovskite-solar-cells","tag-polyhexamethylene-guanidine-hydrochloride","tag-south-china-sea","tag-submarine-solar-farm","tag-underwater-robot","tag-weizhou-island","tag-wen-hua-zhang","tag-yunnan-university"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=622610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622610\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/622611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=622610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=622610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=622610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}