A Step Ahead For Zinc Oxide Piezoelectrics: Over 20 Times Power Improvement
Piezoelectrics are a class of materials that, if applied a mechanical force, exert an electric current on the sides. You may already have knowledge about this, but researchers are studying how to take piezoelectric materials to the next step.
Cogenra Flipped The Switch Of 272 KWh Solar Powered Cogeneration Facility
The US solar energy provider Congenra has made an impressive leap toward a new direction in its field, boasting its services and flipping the switch on a defiant capital project.
New Fullerene-Based Transparent Honeycomb Polymers Could Act As Power Generating Windows
Nowadays, many researchers search methods of making transparent solar cells that can act both as windows and as solar harvesters. Some of them can even be manufactured relatively cheaply using a technology that can spread them onto large areas.
Massive Offshore Wind Farm To Be Built by South Korea
The $8.2 billion project, which involves building 500 turbines, will be developed by companies such as Hyundai Heavy Industries, Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering.
UK Large-Scale Solar Power Plant to Power 1,000 Dorset Homes
The British company Eco Sustainable Solutions has recently put forward its plans to develop a large-scale solar power plant in Dorset, UK. Eco Sustainable Solutions, in partnership with Dorset County Council and Natural England are to install about 30,000 photovoltaic solar panels on a field that is currently used for turf cultivation.
German Solar Power Production Costs Could Beat Fossil Fuels by 2020
Germany's solar power subsidies still fascinate and amaze me. The same goes with the well-known German exactness, which has calculated that the price solar power in their country is estimated to outweigh the price of coal and fossil-derived energy.
Luminescent Solar Laser Concentrates Sunlight For The Most Efficient Photovoltaic System
Collecting solar power in cloudy days is really a problem for the solar industry, since it can make this source of energy unreliable and pretty intermittent. An MIT researcher, Carmen Rotschild, presented a solution that would be perfectly suited for this.
Scientists Create Photovoltaic-Piezoelectric Fiber To Power Gadgets With Light & Motion
A group of researchers at the University of Bolton have created a new piezoelectric-photovoltaic fiber that has the possibility to be implemented into different gadgets to power them using light and motion.
How Bat Fatalities Could Be Reduced By Increasing Start Wind Speed Threshold For Wind...
A study performed by Edward Arnett, from Bat Conservation International in Austing, TX, and his colleagues, have determined that wind turbine operators could lower bat deaths by as much as 93 percent and at least 44 percent by raising the wind speed threshold at which the turbines begin to spin.
Revolutionary Method Of Creating Conductive Transparent Thin Films Discovered by Mistake
A novel method for developing conductive and transparent thin films, that could be used in applications ranging from solar cells to ultracapacitors, has been discovered by a team of UCLA researchers, by mistake.
