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Hybrid System Turns Waste Heat From Solar Panels to Warm Water

Mila Luleva — Tue, 06 Oct 2015 18:17:45 +0000

A new type of hybrid system combines solar panels with solar water heaters to optimize energy production and make the most of every sun ray that comes its way. Sunshine is great for solar panels efficiency, but too much sunshine causes the panels to heat up, and this is actually not so good- in fact […]

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CalTech Idea Could Double Solar Panel Efficiency

Benji Jerew — Fri, 28 Dec 2012 19:50:10 +0000

Light from the sun is made up of a number of different wavelengths ranging from 1 nanometer to 1 millimeter. Solar cells aren’t reactive to the whole spectrum, but only a small portion of it, so the rest of the spectrum outside of the reactive range is essentially wasted, absorbed by the glass and structure […]

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University of Texas Discovery Could Turn Solar Cells' Lost Heat into Electricity

Mike Sandru — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 21:13:04 +0000

Solar cells are a real treasure if handled and improved properly. The problem with them is that they usually use silicon, so the efficiency rate doesn’t exceed 31%, at most. All of this is about to change once the organic plastic semiconductor material suggested by the University of Texas comes in place: a predicted 50 […]

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Cold Mountain Tops: The Best Locations for Harvesting Solar Power

Ovidiu Sandru — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 11:50:52 +0000

If you were to install a solar power plant, where would you? I bet your answer stands in between California and Sahara, and you couldn’t be more right to think so. Who’d ever think of installing a photovoltaic plant on the top of Himalaya, for example? Well, a new study performed by researchers from Japan’s […]

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Researchers On Their Way to Set Solar Panel Efficiency Record at 95%

Mike Sandru — Thu, 19 May 2011 19:54:36 +0000

The breakthrough comes from the chemical engineer Patrick Pinhero at the University of Missouri, who claims his solar panels are way better than those on the market now: up to 90% more efficiency.

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TenKsolar's New Technology Makes Rooftop Solar Panels Shadow-Proof

Mike Sandru — Thu, 05 May 2011 18:11:31 +0000

As you may already know, solar panels are great, but they have one big drawback: if as little as one shadow covers one of the cells, the entire power output slumps. Not to mention that if one of the cells themselves brakes down, the whole system crashes. To hear of such sensitivity in a technology of the future is rather disappointing, but TenKsolar can take up the challenge and solve these issues.

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