New Block Copolymer Solar Cells Shows Promising Results
A small team of researchers at the Rice and Pennsylvania State universities has developed a new solar cell that is based on organic block copolymers. The research... Read more.
Amonix Sets New World Record for Solar Panel Efficiency
Amonix, a solar manufacturer based in California, has been focusing on pushing the efficiency of solar modules to new levels. The company specializes in concentrated... Read more.
Nuclear Power – Why Thorium Is Much Better Than Uranium
Uranium is what has been used in power plants since the 1950’s, not long after Albert Einstein formulated E=mc^2, which proved the tremendous power and potential... Read more.
Will Multilayer Anti-Reflective Coating Boost Solar Cell Efficiency?
Anti-reflective coating is used in many types of solar cell on the market today. They do add a few percentages to overall performance, however, there are further... Read more.
New Biohybrid Solar Cell Uses Spinach for Better Performance
It looks like Popeye is not the only one that gets a boost from spinach – an interdisciplinary team of researchers at Vanderbilt University have successfully extracted... Read more.
Green Roofs and Solar Panels: Higher Energy Efficiency
Both green roofs and solar panels have many significant benefits on their own. One study indicated that green roofs could reduce the yearly energy consumption of... Read more.
Governor Cuomo Signs 3 Bills to Boost NY Solar Growth
The governor of New York, Andrew Cuomo, signed three bills on August 17 as a part of the NY Sun Initiative to spur new growth in the renewable energy sector. Homeowners... Read more.
Breakthrough in Next-Gen Solar Cells
Quantum dots (also known as nanocrystals) have certain electronic properties, which we can use to convert photons (light particles) into electricity in much the... Read more.
100,000 People in Anti-Nuclear Protest Tokyo
On March 11 2011, Japan was hit by a devastating earthquake with a magnitude of 9.0 on the Richter scale. Following the earthquake, a violent tsunami struck the... Read more.
$250 Million in New Solar Installations
Third-party owned solar has been getting a lot of attention only in the last few months. New models of financing solar panels, removing the upfront costs of the... Read more.
Community Solar Power is Growing
Shading, a good angle, available space and many other factors play an important part in determining the feasibility of a solar installation. In fact, most households... Read more.
5 Cool Portable Solar-Powered Gadgets
he sun is not only the answer to cutting carbon emissions with utility-scale solar farms and residential PV-systems. In fact, solar has many of other neat uses.... Read more.
