In dense, urban centers around the world, many people live and work in dim and narrow streets surrounded by tall buildings that block sunlight. And as the global population continues to rise and buildings are jammed closer ...
Optics & Photonics
Apr 14, 2014
0
0
Sunlight plus a common titanium pigment might be the secret recipe for ridding pharmaceuticals, pesticides and other potentially harmful pollutants from drinking water. Scientists combined several high-tech components to ...
Nanomaterials
Mar 16, 2014
0
0
By replacing platinum with molybdenum in photoelectrochemical cells, scientists from two EPFL labs have developed a cheaper and scalable technique that can greatly improve hydrogen production through water splitting as a ...
Materials Science
Jan 8, 2014
0
0
Residents of a remote village nestled in a steep-sided valley in southern Norway are about to enjoy winter sunlight for the first time ever thanks to giant mirrors.
Energy & Green Tech
Oct 27, 2013
20
0
The National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST; President: Ryoji Chubachi) and Sumitomo Chemical Co., Ltd. (Sumitomo Chemical; President: Masakazu Tokura) have developed a novel energy-saving, ...
Nanomaterials
Jul 24, 2013
1
0
Sharp Corporation has achieved the world's highest solar cell conversion efficiency of 44.4%, using a concentrator triple-junction compound solar cell. These solar cells are used in a lens-based concentrator system that focuses ...
Energy & Green Tech
Jun 14, 2013
12
1
A new study has found that pollution from fine particles in the air – mainly the result of burning coal or volcanic eruptions – can shade corals from sunlight and cool the surrounding water resulting in reduced growth ...
Environment
Apr 7, 2013
0
0
Geoengineering, the use of human technologies to alter the Earth's climate system—such as injecting reflective particles into the upper atmosphere to scatter incoming sunlight back to space—has emerged as a potentially ...
Environment
Mar 14, 2013
2
0
(Phys.org)—Exciting the atoms or molecules of a substance via the use of visible light, or photoexcitation, can play a significant role in a range of energy-conversion processes, such as natural photosynthesis (oxygen from ...
General Physics
Feb 11, 2013
0
0
(Phys.org)—In the first-ever experiment of its kind, researchers have demonstrated that clean energy hydrogen can be produced from water splitting by using very small metal particles that are exposed to sunlight. In the ...
Materials Science
Nov 21, 2012
3
0
