Florida Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Thu, 24 Mar 2016 16:46:12 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 Researchers Produce Energy from Rotten Tomatoes https://www.greenoptimistic.com/energy-rotten-tomatoes-2016/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/energy-rotten-tomatoes-2016/#respond Thu, 24 Mar 2016 16:46:02 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=59644 Rotten tomatoes might be the latest source of renewable energy, courtesy of a research team from Princeton. The diversity of sources for production of renewable energy is incredible. Scientists keep finding new and exciting ways to stimulate the movement of electrons through mediums of all shapes, sizes and origins. Many of these sources, of course, are […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/energy-rotten-tomatoes-2016/feed/ 0 59644 New Method of Guiding Light Through Polymer Helps Solar Cells Get Cheaper https://www.greenoptimistic.com/dendrimer-solar-cell-20091014/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/dendrimer-solar-cell-20091014/#respond Wed, 14 Oct 2009 06:21:58 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=4770 New research is paving the pathway towards better and more efficient solar cells, as University of Florida chemists have invented a method of "hacking" the molecular structures of the materials the solar cells are made of, in order to gain a maximum transfer efficiency from them.

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/dendrimer-solar-cell-20091014/feed/ 0 4770 Florida Harvesting the Gulf Stream for Electricity and Hydrogen https://www.greenoptimistic.com/florida-harvesting-the-gulf-stream-for-electricity-and-hydrogen-20090802/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/florida-harvesting-the-gulf-stream-for-electricity-and-hydrogen-20090802/#respond Sun, 02 Aug 2009 05:20:35 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=4235 Florida's needs of electricity have made scientists think about never energy solutions. The needs of 4-7 million homes are so big that conventional energy would be too expensive and pollutant to still be used.

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