Solar Cells Made With Layered Oxide Heterostructures Are Ultra-Efficient
A new class of materials, known as layered oxide heterostructures, made by stacking single atomic layers of oxides, can be used to create a...
Shale Oil Exploration Threatens Renewable Energy
Renewable energy and global emission targets are under a serious threat as the global shale oil industry is expanding with an incredible speed. According...
Helium 3 and The Moon: an Energy-Filled Science Story
The crust of the Moon contains nearly 1 million metric tons of Helium 3. This should be sufficient to provide electricity to the US...
London’s Hydrogen Fuel Network Ahead of Its Time
London is raising the alternative energy stakes with its now fully integrated hydrogen fuel network with the introduction of a 700 bar delivery system....
Coloured, Transparent Solar Cells on Buildings Convert 12% of Incoming Sun Energy
Oxford Photovoltaics received £2m grant to develop colourful, transparent solar cells, which can be placed on building facades, making the whole building capable to...
Bio-Oil Hydrogen Generation Just Needed a More Efficient Process
We've been watching hydrogen fuel for a while now, and the utilization of hydrogen has seen fairly rapid development, as seen in the decreasing...
NASA Uses World’s Largest Solar Sail for Asteroid-Exploring Missions
In 2014, NASA will be launching the world’s largest solar sail ever built. Sunjammer, the solar sail spacecraft, will act as a test bed...
Nanowire-Embedded Quantum Dots Break Solar Cell Efficiency Records
An international team of scientists from Sweden, Switzerland, Spain and the US established a process through which quantum dots can self-assemble at optimal locations...
How to Build an Electricity-Producing Peltier Gasifier
A gasifier works by decomposing organic matter in an oxygen-free environment at high temperatures and then burning the hydrogen that results from that decomposition....
Solar Power Systems: Regular Subject to Fraud
The Queensland Fraud Squad in Australia arrested a “pastor” and his wife, for a scam involving solar panels, after more than 150 complaints were...
