Each week our friends at Inhabitat (http://inhabitat.com/) recap the week's most interesting green developments and clean tech news for us -- it's the Week in Green.
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As scientists and renewable-energy (http://inhabitat.com/energy/) developers continue to make advances in solar (http://inhabitat.com/solar-power/) and wind (http://inhabitat.com/energy/wind/) technology, it's becoming more apparent than ever that clean energy doesn't just represent the future -- it's also the present. Spain proved that this week, when the Mediterranean country announced that it produced an impressive 54 percent of its total energy in April from renewable sources (http://inhabitat.com/spain-produced-54-percent-of-its-electricity-from-renewable-sources-in-april/). Researchers at Yale University discovered a way to boost the efficiency of solar cells (http://inhabitat.com/fluorescent-dye-boosts-solar-cell-efficiency-by-a-whopping-38-percent/) by 38 percent simply by coating them with a fluorescent dye. In another promising development, scientists at the University of Georgia developed a way to harness the photosynthetic process (http://inhabitat.com/scientists-discover-methods-of-harvesting-electricity-from-plants/) to generate clean energy from plants. And at a conference in California, NRG unveiled a mini prefabricated solar canopy (http://inhabitat.com/nrg-energys-new-solar-canopy-offers-a-grid-free-alternative-to-rooftop-solar/) that could soak up rays in any garden or commercial lot.
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