Science and technology has led us to great things for humanity. What this passage was about was the new way we may be able to use energy as light. Scientists obtained their information from observing how water works with light. The scientist saw that in water, light travels much slower and bends a little. Using this data, scientists used that to create a new way to produce light using the energy of the sun. The sun may already be used to create energy in solar panels, but this is a new way to do produce it. An example of what this new technique of producing light offers is that the light from the sun is obtained from the top of the building and it is bent making able to make light throughout the building with “light pipes or fibre optic cables to the ceilings of office spaces, indoor solar panels, or even microfluidic air filters.” This can save energy and electricity making it better for us to live and healthier for the environment. This whole concept is called optofluidics, the study of microfluidics the microscopic delivery of fluids through extremely small channels or tubes combined with optics.
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