Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells Got Better by Using Ionic Salts

Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells Got Better by Using Ionic Salts

Grätzel cells work by using the interaction of a structured semiconductor less than nanometer in size and an organic dye acting as a solar collector. Many tweaks to the Grätzel cells are done at the dye level, but this one is different.

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New Electronic Circuit Cooling System Offers Brighter Electric Car Perspectives

New Electronic Circuit Cooling System Offers Brighter Electric Car Perspectives

Researchers from Purdue University discovered precisely how fluid boils in capilary cooling sytems, and that by designing a system by using those rules they got a much more efficient heat transfer between the object to be cooled and the liquid.

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Humanitarian Help Needed Urgently

Humanitarian Help Needed Urgently

I never thought I’d do this, but I guess I have to, for saving my mother’s life. I am Ovidiu, the man behind The Green Optimistic. Please read what I wrote below, and give a little help to my mother through a small donation, if you can…

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Atlantic City Convention Center Installed 2.4 MW Solar Powered Rooftop

Atlantic City Convention Center Installed 2.4 MW Solar Powered Rooftop

13,400 modules, manufactured by the Chinese company Trina Solar, provide 2,4 MW at peak capacity, equivalent to the needs of 280 American houses. The energy generated will reduce the building’s electricity bills with 25% and in it’s lifetime of 20 years the solar panels will save about $4.4 million.

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New Membrane by Chinese Scientist Can Make Fuel Cells Cheaper

New Membrane by Chinese Scientist Can Make Fuel Cells Cheaper

Currently, platinum is used as a catalyst in hydrogen fuel cells, making them so expensive and hence unappetizing to customers. Lin Zhang, a Chinese scientist, has discovered a membrane that could make the usage of platinum history, and make fuel cells cheaper than ever.

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Your Home`s Excess Heat Could Get Recovered by New Cheap Machine

Your Home`s Excess Heat Could Get Recovered by New Cheap Machine

This article doesn’t talk about huge producers of energy, or doesn’t mention the use of any prime matter to create energy, but instead it focuses on recycled one. Ener-G-Rotors, a company based in Schenectady, NY, is developing a heat recycler that can work with lower quantities of heat, under 150°C, unlike those of the competitors, aimed only to the higher-class, industrial energy producing stations.

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Biofuels are Bad for Poor Countries – they Cause Starvation on Long Term

Biofuels are Bad for Poor Countries - they Cause Starvation on Long Term

The aid agency Oxfam said Wednesday that the all-beloved biofuels are to be blamed for 30% of the increase in food prices worldwide, pushing 30 million people around the globe into poverty.

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Very Fast Battery Chargers for Future Electric Vehicles

Very Fast Battery Chargers for Future Electric Vehicles

Chrysalix Energy invested several million dollars in a Dutch-based maker of ultrafast battery chargers that aim the market of electric cars and plug-in hybrids. Epyon B.V.,produced a “supercharge” technology that reduces the charge time of lithium-ion batteries 20 times below the times reached by current chargers.

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Nanosolar’s Flexible Solar Panels – a GigaWatt Promise Kept

Nanosolar's Flexible Solar Panels - a GigaWatt Promise Kept

Remember Nanosolar? I wrote on article on them a few months ago, telling that they invented a light sensitive thin layer, that could be imprinted on various flexible surfaces and then used as solar batteries. They kept their word to it.

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Blogger gets 72 mpg from stock Euro Honda Civic diesel

What we’re going to do is hypermile these cars. Although, much like Jack Nicholson in A Few Good Men, we’re not sure you can handle the truth. To be perfectly honest, we were shocked ourselves. Shocked and giddy,
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