Strong Nanomaterials from Snails Improve Solar Cells and Lithium-ion Batteries
A recent paper published in the journal Advanced Functional Materials, reveals how the largest type of chitons- gumboot chitons, can contribute to improving solar...
Fresnel Sun House Generates Electricity from Thermal Energy
Japanese company Riken and Da Vinci Co Ltd have invented a cogeneration system to collect the thermal energy of sunlight. This collection uses Fresnel...
Silicon Photovoltaic Wafer Screening System Will Save Solar Industry Billions
The industrial material production process is very hard on silicon wafers. In fact, between 5 and 10% of these expensive wafers used to make...
New Multi-junction Solar Cell Breaks Efficiency Records
The 50 percent conversion efficiency barrier in multi-junction photovoltaic development has the potential to be broken with the novel triple-junction solar cell proposed by...
Solar Power Systems in California Reaching 1 Gigawatt
The rebate program targeted at businesses and homeowners in for installing solar panels in California now has enough subscribers to produce 1 gigawatt worth...
Solar Frontier Establishes New Record in Thin Film Efficiency: 19.7%
We've been covering a lot of advancements in the area of photovoltaic solar power, from how long solar panels last, decades that is,...
Layered Quantum Dots Lead to More Efficient Solar Cells
Two researchers at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana, Pralay K. Santra and Professor Prashant V. Kamat, have discovered that a solar cell...
A Solar-Powered Temporary Housing Unit Now Home to Damaged Property Victims
A number of designers are competing to design the best practical emergency housing unit. Michel Antoun Zateef’s design of The Temporary Housing Unit is...
Goal Zero Unveils Powerful Yeti 150 Solar Generator at 2013 Consumer Electronics Association
At the 2013 Consumer Electronics Association conference, Goal Zero unveiled its next generation generator, the Yeti 150. In 2012, the Yeti 1250, an off-grid-solar-powered generator,...
Chile Sees South America’s First Thermal Solar Power Plant
Minera El Tesoro, part of the Antofagasta Minerals group is the first South American recipient of a solar thermal plant with Spain’s photovoltaic developer...
