Quantasol Breaks Solar Efficiency Records With Location-Optimized Cells
There are many companies in the solar power business that want to make themselves a name, but only few manage to innovate something indeed useful. This time I think Quantasol, a UK company has something worth looking at - very efficient GaAs-based solar cells accustomed to your location.
Solar Impulse: Viable Manned Flight Powered by The Sun
Solar Impulse, the first solar powered plane has been unveiled in Switzerland. With a wingspan of a Boeing 747 but lighter than a small car, the plan could fly around the world powered entirely by the sun.
Artificial Leaves Will Convert Light into Electricity
Researchers at Leiden University in the Netherlands plan to develop artificial leaf using nature's building blocks to harness solar energy even in the worst places.
Earthquakes: The Other Side of Drilling for Geothermal Power
Geothermal technology surely is one of the cleanest technologies available to us, extracting clean heat from the hot underground. This energy source is often seen as inexhaustible, and its benefits seem to outweight its weak points. For decades, geothermal companies have been drilling into Earth's crust at depths of over 4-5km.
Oceanic Winds Prove Efficient Renewable Energy Resources
In the renewable energy field offshore wind farms are not a new concept and Europe has already made several developments in the technology, which promises better returns than onshore farms being built all over the world.
Newly Developed Light Sensor Could Improve Solar Cells and Cameras
Scientists at the University of Toronto have created a new type of light sensor that acts like a pixel in a digital camera. Researchers believe the sensor, which takes advantage of a phenomenon called multi-exciton generation (MEG), could lead to substantial advancements in the performance of a variety of electronic devices including digital cameras.
PET Bottles Used to Sustain Wind Power
Some people have realized that our interference with the planet's ecosystems is in most cases disastrous and have come with several ideas to diminish our influence on the environment. Industrial designer Chris Allen has come up with an idea to use plastic bottles that we usually throw away to help generate energy from wind.
Thin-Film Panchromatic Solar Cells: Next Generation of Solar Efficiency
A Korean team led by Nam-Gyu Park has recently made a breakthrough discovery in solar cell development. This discovery will not only increase the efficiency of thin-film panchromatic solar cells but as well the use of clean and reusable energy on the entire globe.
Fraunhofer's Very Efficient Solar Cell Concentrator
Solar cell system which concentrate solar light through lenses seem to be the most efficient and advantageous. The concentrator enables the system to work with cheaper lens system instead of expensive semi-conductor materials, making it as well more efficient.
Modular, Portable Nuclear Reactors: Energy Solution for Poor Countries?
Modular thinking has brought us many wonderful things in technology, medicine, and in most exact sciences. I see no reason why it should not work in power generation.
