World’s First Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion Plant to be Built Off Chinese Shore
US aerospace company Lockheed Martin have signed an agreement with Reignwood Group, a resort developer based in Beijing, China, to construct an Ocean Thermal...
New Plant in Arizona Turns Garbage Into Gas
The Spanish engineering company Abengoa announced that they will invest $110 million to build a plant, which will turn garbage into electricity. The new...
New Technique Identifies Manufacturing Residue, Improves Solar Cell Efficiency
Scientists from Argonne National Laboratory discovered that the efficiency of solar cells is reduced by traces of residue from the manufacturing process of organic photovoltaics.
Solar...
Toyota FCV-R Hydrogen Fuel Cell Concept Set for Production in 2015
Hydrogen fuel cell vehicles haven't seen a whole lot of the limelight in recent times, in part because the technology is wildly expensive, not...
Single Atomic Layer Photovoltaic Device May Lead to Flexible Solar Cells
An international team of researchers from the University of Oxford, National University of Singapore, and the University of Boston have developed an atom-thin photovoltaic...
Elon Musk Interview: Supercharger Network Plans in Europe & More
Elon Musk, the CEO of Tesla Motors, has given us the privilege of answering our questions directly, again.
This time, I asked him about plans...
European Commission to Impose Import Duties On Chinese Solar Panels
Import duties on solar panels from China are about to be proposed officially by the EU's chief trade commissioner, Karel De Gucht, next week...
New Technology Incubator, A123 Systems Reborn
Business goes on, and while A123 Systems sank slowly into bankruptcy, that doesn't mean it's over. Part of A123 split off as B456 ...
Graphene and Monolayers For More Efficient Solar Cells
With all the talk about nanomaterials making up more efficient solar cells, most of the focus has been on graphene and its unique properties....
3D Hall Effect Sensor Improves Electric Vehicle Battery Management
The traction battery in an electric vehicle is actually made up of thousands of individual cells, over 7,000 in the case of the Tesla...
