The White House To Be Equipped With Solar Panels, After All
Previous news were saying that the Obama administration doesn't have any plans of installing solar panels on the White House. Not even a month has passed, and a representative of the White House in Washington, DC says solar panels will be installed on the White House in order to impulse Americans to adopt green energy.
$50 Motorcycle Retrofitted To Run on Solar Power
Tony Danger Coiro, a student at Purdue University, has recently created a zero-emission electric motorcycle that is powered by solar energy. The motorcycle, which initially cost about $50, is a transformed version of an old 1978 Suzuki.
Sandia Researchers Discovering How Clouds Affect Photovoltaic Farms
A group of researchers at the Sandia National Laboratories found a new way to predict and prepare for fluctuations in electricity generation due to changes in weather - cold, heat, clouds and airborne dust.
Nanoscale Thin Film Solar Cell Absorbs 12 Times More Light Than Macro-Sized Counterparts
Light behaves differently in macro- and nano- scale environments, and this could be a starting point for those researchers who want to improve the solar cells' efficiency. It was a starting point for some Stanford engineers, who found out that light ricocheting inside an ultra-thin polymer film solar cell behaves differently than if the film wasn't so thin. The difference is enormous.
Three South Florida Schools Received Solar Panels Donated by FPL Group
Three South Florida schools (Deerfield Beach Middle School, Mandarin Lakes K-8 Academy in Homestead and SunCoast Community High School in Riviera Beach) have received solar panels from FPL Group Foundation. This way the schools will start saving money and teaching students about renewable energy.
Solar Wind Power Harvesting Satellite Could Produce 100 Billion Times More Energy Than We...
I've been hearing at least two versions of how we should construct an orbital power station, that would harness the Sun's power and transmit it through lasers or microwaves to Earth. Those concepts, along with classic solar and wind power fade when compared to this one.
SolarEagle: Boeing's Future Unmanned Aircraft Able To Stay Aloft For More Than 5 Years
The US military's DARPA has signed an $89 million deal with Boeing for the development of a solar powered, unmanned aircraft that could stay aloft for more than five years. Of course, the aircraft would be used in espionage purposes, but the concept is also a testing ground for civilian purposes.
New Leaf-Mimicking Solar Cells Using Chlorophyll-Infused Water Gel
Solar cells currently used are mostly bulky and made from silicon and other non-recyclable materials, hence they're not as green as they should be. Mimicking nature might be a solution to this problem. More exactly, North Carolina State University researchers have prototyped a water-based solar cell, mimicking the functioning of a leaf, to produce electricity.
BP Solar To Build 10MW Photovoltaic Power Plant in Western Australia
Verve Energy in collaboration with BP Solar are planning to build Australia's largest ever grid-connected solar power plant. The photovoltaic power plant is expected to generate about 10MW of clean energy and according to the two companies, it will be built in Geraldton, Western Australia.
A New Step Taken Towards Spray-On Solar Cells and Self-Powered e-readers
University of Florida researchers have invented spray-on polymers that can reflect or transmit any color, and can be applied to glass or plastics as well. "That's what this newest paper is about, but we've also developed polymer coatings for all the other colors of the spectrum," said John Reynolds, a scientist at the University of Florida who led a team that developed the clear-to-black polymers.
