Chemically-Etched Black Silicon Proves Efficient Solar Cells Can Be Cheaper
While SiOnyx, a MA-based startup, uses lasers to create black silicon and improve the efficiency and price of solar cells, researchers at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) discovered a simple chemical treatment that could replace the otherwise expensive antireflective solar cell coatings currently used in the industry.
On-Demand Hydrogen Production System for Commercial Use Released
eHydrogen Solutions, a company specialized in the development of on-demand hydrogen power stations, issued a press release announcing that they launched the "H2-Reactor Development Project". The H2-Reactor uses water as the hydrogen source, is self-contained and has an alloy of aluminum or magnesium as the reactive material (to get the hydrogen out of the oxygen bond).
Power-Conducting Plastics Could Significantly Slash the Cost of Solar Panels
Solar panels have become very popular these days, but the cost of making them has also reached a fairly high level. So far this thing happened because of the expensive materials used, but today researchers have managed to develop some new power-conducting plastics, able to slash the cost of making solar panels. In order to do that, they replaced tin oxide with conductive plastics.
Metallic Catalysts Could Increase the Efficiency of Li-Air Batteries Three Fold
The MIT researchers could easily change the balance towards Li-air batteries in the near future just by changing the actual electrode materials. In the paper published in the journal Electrochemical and Solid-State Letters, the researchers showed that by changing the carbon electrodes with gold or platinum electrodes as a catalyst, the efficiency of the battery will increase.
Chemistry Professor Innovation Making Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells More Efficient and Durable
Dye-sensitized (Graetzel) solar cells have been in the spot of many minds since they were first created in early '90s by Michael Graetzel, from...
Morocco Planning to Harvest 2 GW of Solar Power by 2020
More and more governments show high interest in investing in clean energy sources. With 3,000 hours of sun per year, Morocco is now planning to invest in the harvesting of solar power.
Huge Swiss Airplane Powered Only by Solar Cells Takes Off For 36h Flight
A huge plane powered by solar energy is being tested in Switzerland. In December, the airplane made its first successful test flight, rising at a height of just one meter above the ground.
MicroBelt – Portable Wind Energy Harvester to Power Wireless Sensors
Humdinger Wind Energy LLC has developed a micro turbine called MicroBelt, that is able power the new information age with a billion tiny harvesters. The millions of wireless sensors that collect a variety of information could be powered by this little device.
Scientists Discover Huge Energy Source by Breaking a Nature Law In Ion Collider
Things are to be discussed, but it looks like scientists from the Brookhaven National Laboratory on Long Island, using their Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC), created a symmetry-breaking bubble of space where parity, one of nature's fundamental concepts, no longer existed for a tiny fraction of a second.
Solar Powered Cellphone Towers Can Dramatically Reduce Own Carbon Footprint
The Ministry of New and Renewable Energy of the Indian government will present a mandate that would require telecom operators to use solar panels to power their cellphone towers. This will dramatically reduce their carbon footprint and will make a huge difference in long term.
