Plastic Solar Cells: Your Next Gadget’s Cheap Power Source
Portable electronic devices have from now on a new technology invented for making the battery life longer or making them to work completely on solar energy.
The plastic solar cells with eight square inches in size...
Ferrari Goes Green By Installing a Solar Rooftop
Ferrari has unveiled in 20th of January 2009 a solar system which was installed over the roof of the Engine Mechanical Machining facility in Maranello, Italy. The system has 1,075 solar modules from Mitsubishi Electric which provides 213,895 kWh of power per year. The module used is a 185 Wp Mitsubishi Electric. The peak power of the photovoltaic system is 198.85 kWp.
German Solar Cells Prove New Efficiency Record
Recently, German scientists have broken a new record in solar cell efficiency: 41.1%. It seems like the scientific world is in a continuous race towards more and more efficient harvesting of solar energy, but few use it at its maximum power.
Ian`s Solar-Heated Air Balloons Could Harness 500kW Each
How would you like an engine producing your dear electricity? How would you like that engine to have pistons as high as heat-powered balloons? Well, an environmental consultant from Solartran in Brisbane, Australia, by his name Ian Edmonds, has designed such an energy producing "engine" from the classic and romantic air balloon.
Solvatten: Solar Powered Water Purifier for the Poor
While most new inventions are for wealthy people, with some social status, once in a while there are inventions aimed to help the poor and provide the minimal sanitary conditions through simple and inexpensive methods.To get one liter of boiling water you need one kilo of firewood. People living in areas with no safe water usually spend 3-10% of total income/year on water.
3D Solar Cells Evolution Helped by Nanotubes
Cornell University and DuPont research team started working on a project which will probably revolutionize the electronics industry. The goal is to go to thinner, lighter and more flexible transistors and solar cells. With the use of nanotubes, an economical electronics material will be made which should be as good as silicon.
LG's New Reflective Backlight Display to Debut at CES 2009
LG's display department has produced recently a new 14.1 inch LCD panel, that may be illuminated by ambient light and save some of the power the laptop uses.
Surface Plasmons Increase PV Efficiency to 30%
Solar-powered electricity generation is heading towards better days, due to nanotechnology research. Dutch scientists Kylie Catchpole and Albert Polman from the FOM Institute for Atomic and Molecular Physics in Netherlands, showed that by using nano-sized metal particles in solar cells can render their overall efficiency up to 30%.
KTAO – Solar Powered Broadcasting Since 1991! – listen here
KTAO is the United States' first radio station powered by solar energy. It has 140 photovoltaic panels that generate enough energy to transmit radio waves 64 km across and across the world through the Internet.
Energizer to Release Their First Portable Solar-Powered Battery Charger
This gadget looks like a clamshell cellphone, where the keypad section is replaced by battery slots and the display by solar panels. Some features of this battery-charging gadget will be...
