Let's see, SpectroLab's solar cells have a 40.7% efficiency and first generation single junction silicon cells are approaching the theoretical limit of 33%. The very first solar cell created in 1883 had a 1% efficiency so this boy's cell must be at least 366.3% efficient and as much as 16,500% efficient. Way to go, generating three times as much power as it received from the Sun... We could run a light bulb of one to power another one of his solar cell and so on and so on and have infinite energy. If you run the first cell off the second cell then it should explode so we'll have solar bombs...

When will reporters learn to do some research and to do some basic math...

Of course using nanotubes to increase surface area is a good idea but there's more lucrative markets for that approach as in Li-Ion batteries.

The boy has a good science project but the reporter doesn't know what he's talking about but kudos for the kid.