New Report Lists Land-use Requirements For Solar Power Plants
A team of experts at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) towards the Department of Energy gathered data from installed or currently under construction...
ARPA-E-backed Hybrid Solar Cells Make Better Use of Light, Day or Night
Earth gets the equivalent of 84TWh/day in solar power at the surface, but current technology doesn't allow us to collect it all, which is...
Panasonic’s New Water Purification Technology Runs on Solar Power
Modern water purification methods exist that can easily get rid of water contaminants, even salt and bacteria, but some organic toxins and toxic metals,...
Nature Inspires Engineers to Develop Energy-Efficient Windows
Nature may provide clues about how to reduce energy leaks from windows, according to engineering experts at the University of Toronto and Harvard University.
University...
Revolutionary Solar-to-Hydrogen Fuel Process Developed, but Why Bother?
We know that renewable energy, such as hydrogen fuel cell technology, could be the future of energy and transportation, but if it isn't economically...
Washing Solar Panels Not Worth the Time, Money, and Effort
A team of engineers at the University of California at San Diego have discovered that it’s not worth the time, money, and effort to...
Off-Shore Wind Turbines Could Supply All of EU’s Power Needs, And More!
Interested in wind power? Well, you can't just slap a wind turbine anywhere. What about off-shore where no one will see them?
You can't put...
New Tech Stores Solar Energy as Hydrogen
Scientists from HZB and TU Delft, The Netherlands, were able to store five percent of solar energy in the form of hydrogen using a...
Capacity of Lithium-Ion Batteries Determined by Graphite Wetting Behaviour
Researchers from University of Pittsburgh discovered that the performance of lithium-ion batteries and super capacitors made from graphite and graphene is affected by their...
New 4G Solar Cells Combine Inorganic and Organic Materials to Boost Efficiency
A new range of combinations of organic and inorganic materials is found to set the grounds for a hybrid fourth generation more efficient and...
