White House Solar Panels Being Installed, Finally! Again?
Bureaucracy could be the reason that it's taken some three years for the White House to finally get its solar panel upgrades, or is...
New Organic Solar Cells Restore Their Efficiency By Mimicking Plant Leaves
A team of researchers from North Carolina State University developed self-healing solar cells, which reinvigorate themselves as their performance decreases with time in a...
Graphene Closer to Becoming Suitable for High-Efficiency Electronics
Researchers from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory are one step closer to turning graphene into the most desired material for producing ultrahigh-efficiency solar cells...
New Report Lists Land-use Requirements For Solar Power Plants
A team of experts at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) towards the Department of Energy gathered data from installed or currently under construction...
ARPA-E-backed Hybrid Solar Cells Make Better Use of Light, Day or Night
Earth gets the equivalent of 84TWh/day in solar power at the surface, but current technology doesn't allow us to collect it all, which is...
Panasonic’s New Water Purification Technology Runs on Solar Power
Modern water purification methods exist that can easily get rid of water contaminants, even salt and bacteria, but some organic toxins and toxic metals,...
Revolutionary Solar-to-Hydrogen Fuel Process Developed, but Why Bother?
We know that renewable energy, such as hydrogen fuel cell technology, could be the future of energy and transportation, but if it isn't economically...
Washing Solar Panels Not Worth the Time, Money, and Effort
A team of engineers at the University of California at San Diego have discovered that it’s not worth the time, money, and effort to...
New Tech Stores Solar Energy as Hydrogen
Scientists from HZB and TU Delft, The Netherlands, were able to store five percent of solar energy in the form of hydrogen using a...
New 4G Solar Cells Combine Inorganic and Organic Materials to Boost Efficiency
A new range of combinations of organic and inorganic materials is found to set the grounds for a hybrid fourth generation more efficient and...
