News tagged with solar energy
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Singapore researchers develop cheaper yet efficient thin film solar cells
Researchers in Singapore have exploited advanced nanostructure technology to make a highly efficient and yet cheaper silicon solar cell. With this development, the researchers hope that the cost of solar energy can be halved.
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Oct 12, 2011 |
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Measuring elusive neutrinos flowing through the Earth, physicists learn more about the sun
Using one of the most sensitive neutrino detectors on the planet, an international team including physicists Laura Cadonati and Andrea Pocar at the University of Massachusetts Amherst are now measuring the flow of solar neutrinos ...
Oct 07, 2011 |
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Astrophysics and extinctions: News about planet-threatening events
Space is a violent place. If a star explodes or black holes collide anywhere in our part of the Milky Way, they'd give off colossal blasts of lethal gamma-rays, X-rays and cosmic rays and it's perfectly reasonable to expect ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Oct 07, 2011 |
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Colored solar cells could make display screens more efficient
(PhysOrg.com) -- A new kind of screen pixel doubles as a solar cell and could boost the energy efficiency of cell phones and e-readers. The technology could also potentially be used in larger displays to make ...
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Oct 07, 2011 |
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Solar systems: Energy from sun can pay for panels in about 10 years
Ben Cuker lives what he teaches as a professor of marine and environmental science at Hampton University in Hampton, Va.
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Oct 06, 2011 |
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'Dark energy' targeted in European space mission
So-called dark energy, believed to play a role in the accelerated expansion of the Universe, will be studied in a major science mission to be launched later this decade, the European Space Agency (ESA) said ...
Oct 04, 2011 |
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Advance offers new opportunities in chemistry education, research
Researchers at Oregon State University have created a new, unifying method to describe a basic chemical concept called "electronegativity," first described almost 80 years ago by OSU alumnus Linus Pauling ...
Oct 04, 2011 |
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Chilean car shines in solar auto competition
Latin America's first big solar car competition has a winner: a Chilean entry named Intikalpa sped to success in the Atacama Solar Challenge.
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Oct 03, 2011 |
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Researchers unveil innovative solar cooling project
Using solar thermal energy to power an air conditioning unit can be difficult and expensive. But a team of researchers at the University of California, Merced, have added a game-changing advance to the process ...
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Sep 30, 2011 |
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Google to finance home solar systems
(AP) -- Google says it will invest $75 million to help 3,000 homeowners install solar panels on their roofs.
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Sep 27, 2011 |
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Empowering power systems: Researchers light up possibilities with solar panel based design
A team of eight researchers at Kansas State University is using renewable energy to generate an agile power distribution system and transform the industry.
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Sep 26, 2011 |
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Lessons to be learned from nature in photosynthesis
Photosynthesis is one of nature's finest miracles. Through the photosynthetic process, green plants absorb sunlight in their leaves and convert the photonic energy into chemical energy that is stored as sugars ...
Sep 23, 2011 |
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Remote island paradise to be powered by coconuts and sunshine
In the Malay language, the coconut palm is called "pokok seribu guna," meaning "the tree of a thousand uses." Make that one thousand and one. In just over a year's time, the entire chain of the Tokelau islands plans ...
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Sep 22, 2011 |
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Nanorods made of fullerenes improve performance of polymer solar cells
The biggest obstacle to making use of solar energy has been the excessively high price of solar cells made of inorganic semiconductors. In contrast, solar cells based on semiconducting polymers are affordable, ...
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Sep 16, 2011 |
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Optofluidics could improve energy applications
(PhysOrg.com) -- The ability to manipulate light and fluids on a single chip, broadly called "optofluidics," has led to such technologies as liquid-crystal displays and liquid-filled optical fibers for fast ...
Sep 13, 2011 |
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