New Electron Cooling Discovery to Extract More Energy from Solar Cells
Do you know that electrons can be “cooled”? The cooling of an electron, in lay language, is the transitory state in which the electron passes from a high-oscillation state to a low-oscillation, normal state. The high oscillation state is given by an external stimulus, i.e. electric voltage.
Hydrogen to be Produced Cheaply With 19th Century Invention
G.D. Botto, an Italian inventor and physicist, performing experiments on a technique for hydrogen generation, has discovered that a chain of iron and platinum wires, wrapped around a wooden stick and alternately connected as thermocouples, can be used to convert a temperature difference into an electric voltage.
Tiniest Solar Cell Invented to Power Microscopic Devices
The green energy movement has brought, like wars brought technological advances, a wave of alternatively-powered inventions, among which it is the most recent miniature solar cell, designed to power microscopic machines.
New Anti-Reflective Coating Make Solar Panels Absorb 96.2% Sunlight
I like the way science evolves and still, for years, nobody seems to look at the new inventions. This may be the case with solar, because almost weekly we discover news about useful inventions in the area of solar power. Instead, old and inefficient methods are still being commercialized and “promoted”, at their high prices, like it’s wanted to decrease their real usage in real life conditions, not promote it.
Solar Powered Cellular Networks: Good Idea, Expensive Security
ABI Research analysts say that the future of mobile telephony will be sun powered. They say all BTSes (cellular base stations) will be equipped with solar panels, backed up by diesel generators.
Project Surya: Cooking Solar Power for The Masses
This solar-powered cooker allows the poor people, on the one hand (which I support) to reduce the forest cutting and save their money, by using free solar energy, and on the other hand to eliminate the risk of choking with the smoke their wood chimneys make in their homes.
Bakersfield`s First Solar Thermal Power Plant Launched Last Week
Last week in Bakersfield, California, was launched the first solar thermal plant in nearly two decades. This plant will focus sunlight on tubes that contain water, a different process, compared to other solar photovoltaic systems that convert sunlight into electricity.
Video: How a Solar Furnace Melts a Piece of Steel
By writing the previous article and doing some research on steel and solar power, I came across a YouTube video showing what a solar furnace (or solar concentrator) can do to a piece of steel. While cooking a hot dog is “a child’s play”, melting steel is something you must seriously think about.
