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The Power Conversion -- Intelligent Motion (PCIM) conference kicks off today in Nuremburg, Germany, and touts record-setting attendance for a power electronics... Read More »
Dye-sensitized solar cells are not an entirely new technology. By coating standard semiconductors in photovoltaic cells, researchers are able to increase the amount... Read More »
While scientists worldwide work to develop novel materials to increase photovoltaic solar cell efficiency, researchers from the Loo Lab at Princeton University are... Read More »
The impending scarcity of many valuable resources on our planet has had people searching for and utilizing other energy sources. Although researchers have studied and ... Read More »
Sheets of carbon-based nanomaterial graphene -- akin to a sheet of unrolled carbon nanotubes -- has some remarkable properties. A single sheet of graphene is just one ... Read More »
Saving energy and greener methods of generating energy are always at the forefront of peoples’ minds during the spring time, especially around Earth Day... Read More »
Forests of carbon nanotubes are an efficient alternative for platinum electrodes in dye-sensitized solar cells (DSC), according to new research by collaborators at... Read More »
In a study published in the Institute of Physics's Publishing’s journal Environmental Research Letters, researchers from Concordia University created this... Read More »
Taking advantage of the force generated by magnetic repulsion, researchers at Georgia Tech have developed a new technique for measuring the adhesion strength between... Read More »
A team at George Washington University has demonstrated a new solar process that can produce lime (CaO) for cement without any emission of carbon dioxide, and at... Read More »
Japan is looking for cleaner and greener ways to produce electricity that won’t explode in the case of a natural disaster. Kyocera Corporation, IHI Corporation... Read More »
Sematech recently announced that centrotherm thermal solutions, a 100 percent subsidiary of centrotherm photovoltaics AG and a developer of process tools and... Read More »
Halotechnics has developed two new materials for solar heat energy storage involving new kinds of salt and glass. These allow much higher temperatures than have been... Read More »
The city of Datong in Shanxi Province in China is known for its rich coal resources. Datong has a huge reserve of coal. The total coal output in 2011 was 103.48... Read More »
In June and July 2014, Brazil will be hosting the renowned World Cup. Bold plans are underway for making the month long tournament a sustainable event. Brazil's... Read More »
Reaching grid parity has been regarded as a pivotal milestone in the world of power, solar and renewable energy. Grid parity is the cost of electricity generated from ... Read More »
Transmission system operators must assess precisely the supply of electricity from renewable energies for the next day in order to market this electricity on the... Read More »
With approval of the Environmental Impact Review on its 200-megawatt, two-tower Saguache Solar Energy Project, SolarReserve hopes to soon get started on a new pair of ... Read More »
Concentrated solar power (CSP) brings a value to the energy table that photovoltaic technology (PV) just doesn't have. That's the ability to store daytime... Read More »
Researchers at UCLA’s school of engineering and UCLA’s California Nanosystems Institute (CNSI) have developed a device to convert sunlight into... Read More »