New Organic Framework for More Efficient Graetzel Solar Cells Discovered
Scientists from Cornell University have unveiled a basic process that could give solar cells a boost in efficiency and a drop in price. The process employs molecules typically used in coloring blue jeans and in ink dyes. Their purpose if to build an organic framework that could serve as a building block for cheaper and flexible solar cells.
Power Generating River Turbines To Be Installed Under Famous Parisian Bridges
After having installed the heating systems of some of their buildings based on underground springs, and mini-windmills on buildings, the people of Paris will have yet another clean energy generation project right under their famous and historical bridges. They call them "hydroliennes", or water turbines, powered by the river Seine (if you haven't visited Paris, you should).
The Morning Challenge Suggests Japanese People To Wake Up 1 Hour Earlier For Saving...
It looks like the Japanese aren't going to stay behind the English with daylight saving (or vice-versa), and launch a campaign that encourages people to change their wake-up and sleep time one hour earlier to save lots of tons of emitted carbon dioxide.
Jake Explains How to Build a Super-Cheap Solar Water Heater
Solar water heaters are not a new idea, but people who often complain about rising energy prices should be reminded to use such devices to help heat their homes and take a shower, too.
Morocco's 140MW Wind Farm to be the Biggest in Africa
Morocco's King Mohammed VI inaugurated this Monday a $300 million wind farm near Tangiers, 34 kilometres (21 miles) from Melloussa, and according to the officials it could be the biggest in Africa. This new wind farm will be capable to generate 140MW of clean electricity due to its 165 wind turbines.
Amazing 35% Efficiency of Multi-Band Thin Film Solar Cells Demonstrated
Yet another solar cell breakthrough comes from RoseStreet Labs Energy, Inc (RSLE), who announces a new kind of multiband photovoltaic cell with three distinct light absorption regions, all integrated onto a single-layered thin film. The discovery is based on IBand, a technology proprietary to RSLE and is the first intermediate band solar cell prototyped in a laboratory.
772 Miles In a Tesla Roadster, Across the UK
High mileage electric cars are considered to be a thing of the future, because, with today's average driving style, no electric car is able to run for more than two hundred miles on a single charge. That is the Tesla Roadster, the first EV that broke the ice, launched in the age of performance-driven gasoline engines.
Toyota Auris Hybrid Launches European Production As Of Today
Today officially begins the production of the new Auris model with Hybrid Synergy Drive (HSD), the first full hybrid vehicle in its class built in Europe. To generate a powerful efficiency, this car has two electric motors and a 1.8 litre VVT-i petrol engine.
Efficiency of Transforming Biomass Into Biofuel Improved 100% by Dutch Company
Forget killing bacteria to make ethanol or biodiesel, or researching the creation of new lifeforms to do that - the Dutch have a solution. DSM NV, from the Netherlands, have designed a new technology that will improve the conversion efficiency of waste agricultural products (second-generation biofuels) of up to 100%.
Scientists Explain Limitations of High Temperature Superconductors in High Currents
Since their discovery in late 1980s, superconductors were thought to revolutionize everything that had an electric current flowing, but allowing it to pass through more easily, and with much less heat produced. Ultra-efficient magnetic trains had been envisioned, then, but ...
