Solar-Powered Snowboard Uses Thin Film Technology from Powerfilm Solar
The winter sports gurus of Signal Snowboards every third Thursday make for their workshop to deliberate on ideas to construct something quite creative and...
Solar Power Efficiency Improved by Forecasting Cloud Activity
Solar power is becoming so ubiquitous that utility companies may need new tools to ensure they can provide steady and inexpensive power – even...
Weird or What: UK’s National Coal Museum Powered by Solar Panels
Ironically, the National Coal Museum in the United Kingdom is now powered by solar panels. Yes, the birth place of the coal-powered industrial revolution...
14 Year-Old Invents Cheap Solar Powered Water Purification System
As teenagers, most of us cared more about say, a humiliating acne outbreak or which classmate we’d ask to homecoming, rather than the difficulties...
Solar Cell Fibers May Lead to Wearable Energy Sources
For years, researchers have sought to develop a solar fabric that is wearable. The solar fabric would be pliable, portable, lightweight, wearable, and capable...
China Ups its Solar Target From 5 to 40 GW by 2015
It’s been quite a bit of a surprise watching China practically double its solar target for 2015 at least three times in the past...
New Thin-Film Solar Cell May Provide Electricity at Grid Parity
No stranger to developing sustainable organic photovoltaic (OPV) technologies, Global Photonic Energy Corp. (GPEC), has created a thin-film solar cell that has the ability...
More Homes to Become Solar Powered, Experts Predict
Since the 1980s, solar installations have seen a steady decline in pricing, leading to further adoption by residential and commercial entities alike. While the...
Photosynthesis Debunked: Oxygen Evolving Complex Explains Water Oxidation
Using the means of quantum chemistry, scientists from the Max Plank Institute for Chemical Energy Conversion discovered new properties of the oxygen evolving complex...
New Class of Fullerene Mimics May Lower Organic Solar Cell Cost
A new understanding of fullerenes, a molecule composed entirely of carbon and shaped like a hollow sphere, ellipsoid, or tube, may lead to a...
