RSi Solar: World's First Transparent Solar Glass Window
The company called RSi Solar has announced that they've created transparent, photovoltaic glass window. What is amazing is that these solar windows could generate 80 - 250 watts each, depending on the size.
Fridge Powered by Heat Invented at Stanford
We have been talking a while ago about refrigerators that needed no electricity or that were powered by the Sun, through evaporation, helping poor countries with a cool place to keep their food. Now, venture capitalist Adam Grosser teamed up with some Stanford scientists to create refrigerator that really doesn't need to be plugged in anything but the Sun.
BOINC Software to Cut 20 Years in Solar Cell Development
Everyone knows two are more powerful than one. On the same principle, IBM and Harvard University researchers launched a joint project today in an effort to search for the optimum combination of materials to create the most efficient solar cells ever.
DOE Studying How Concrete Could Absorb Solar Power Better
Some University of Arkansas researchers want to give solar power a new meaning. They want to store the Sun's heat in concrete, and then pass that heat on to generate electricity. Since the US hasn't had many projects involving storing of thermal energy in concrete, it is a good time to start.
New MIT Thin Film Solar Cells Brag 50% More Efficiency
MIT researchers invented new and improved thin film solar cells that present 50% more efficiency, while being much more cheap than classic solar cells. Their price is due to using less silicon than conventional solar cells.
Air#Maze: Cheapest and Simplest Solar Powered Room Heater
"Environmental Art must work," says artist/inventor Doyle Doss. "As artists, as creative individuals, we must do all we can to make our work actually solve a problem. What we create must make positive impacts on an environment that has been severely damaged. The question for each of us will always remain, 'Is my work a part of the solution, really, or is it just a re-statement of the problem?' "
Solar Balloon to Harness 400 Times More Energy
An image is worth a thousand words. As you may see in the picture above, this balloon, made by Cool Earth, is concentrating the solar power to a focal point, where a photovoltaic solar cell is harnessing the light.
Sharp and Enel to Produce 1 GigaWatt Thin Film Solar Power Yearly
It's good news to hear that green technology is growing rapidly in our times, and that new inventions in solar power are being applied months after they had been on the engineers' desks. This time it's about a new joint venture between the Japanese company Sharp and the largest Italian electricity provider, Enel.
Artificial Photosynthesis Succeeded Using Gold "Leaves"
Kane Jennings and Peter Ciesielski, along with a team of scientists from the Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, have been working to create the world's first artificial leaf, that can do what natural leaves do: capture the light. More, their leaves transform that light into electricity. So, the nature's 3.5 billion years work is now to be synthesized in a lab experiment. Here's how they do it.
New Electron Cooling Discovery to Extract More Energy from Solar Cells
Do you know that electrons can be "cooled"? The cooling of an electron, in lay language, is the transitory state in which the electron passes from a high-oscillation state to a low-oscillation, normal state. The high oscillation state is given by an external stimulus, i.e. electric voltage.
