Biosolar focuses on exploring how to implement a cost reduction of solar cells by replacing petroleum-based plastic PV panel components with durable bio-based materials, that still meet the requirements of current PV panel manufacturing processes.
Konarka, one of the early adopters of thin plastic solar cells has recently unveiled news about their latest prototype achieving a light conversion efficiency of 8.3 percent.
About 40 miles southeast of Las Vegas, in Boulder City, Nevada, the largest photovoltaic power plant in the US went online last week. The 48-MW Copper Mountain Solar Facility was set up for construction in January, this year, and on Dec 1st, Sempra Generation had announced the completion of its facility and was already up and running.
The renewable energy capacity in Brazil will grow with over 400 MW of wind power. The amount will be provided by GE Energy, a first-rate US provider of power systems and energy services, which had won the supplying commitments in a previous auction last year.
After modifying Israeli highways to produce energy from piezoelectric pads installed beneath the asphalt, Innowattech, an Israel-based company, now applied their technology on railroads.
You remember the movie "Who Killed The Electric Car?," right? We wrote an article about it almost two years ago. Well, if you didn't watch the movie or don't know the idea behind it, at least let me tell you it has a sequel that it's going to debut this spring.
An interesting observation on the way wasps live and how their body works led some UK and Israeli scientists to the conclusion that they may be harnessing solar power just like a photovoltaic solar cell.
Viruses, even if they have a bad reputation as the most versatile and destructive forces for anything alive, have their good parts, too. Now, for instance, an interdisciplinary team of scientists from the University of Maryland have a clue on how to use a virus called TMV (Tobacco Mosaic Virus) to enhance lithium ion batteries' capacity tenfold. And they're not joking.
According to a study cited by Corporate Communication Chief Officer with Ethiopian Electric Power Corporation (EEPCo), Misikir Negash, Ethiopia has proven to be a novel source of renewable energy with great potential.
As part of the Government's plan, made public in September, the country will export 900,000 vehicles in its attempt to raise the domestic market share up to 21% by 2015, according to an e-mailed statement from the Ministry of Knowledge Economy and the Ministry of Environment.
