There's a tradeoff when sprawling solar farms pop up on agricultural land: farmland disappears, perhaps forever, in return for growth in the promising renewable energy sector.
Environment
Dec 19, 2017
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Solar energy is to lead the race to new power generation over the coming decades, thanks in large part to China and India, the International Energy Agency said Tuesday.
Energy & Green Tech
Nov 14, 2017
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For several years, tension has been rising in line with the approaching commercialization of perovskite photovoltaic cells. Now, researchers have developed devices based on these materials that can convert solar energy into ...
Energy & Green Tech
Nov 8, 2017
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Researchers have quantified the astonishingly high speeds at which future solar cells would have to operate in order to stretch what are presently seen as natural limits on their energy conversion efficiency.
General Physics
Sep 21, 2017
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The renewable energy sector employed 9.8 million people worldwide in 2016, a sharp increase from 2012, the Abu Dhabi-based International Renewable Energy Agency said on Wednesday.
Energy & Green Tech
May 24, 2017
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Engineers from the University of Glasgow, who have previously developed an 'electronic skin' covering for prosthetic hands made from graphene, have found a way to use some of graphene's remarkable physical properties to use ...
Nanomaterials
Mar 23, 2017
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The University Institute for Advanced Materials Research at the Universitat Jaume I (UJI) has participated in the European Project Sunflower to develop less toxic organic photovoltaic materials viable for industrial production. ...
Nanomaterials
Jan 27, 2017
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Researchers from Universidad Politécnica de Madrid and Nicaraguan Institute of Territorial Studies have developed a technique to make accurate predictions of short-term global solar irradiance (GSI) using artificial neural ...
Space Exploration
Dec 16, 2016
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Technion researchers have developed a technology that could improve the efficiency of photovoltaic cells by nearly 70 percent. The study was conducted at the Excitonics Lab, headed by Assistant Professor Carmel Rotschild ...
Energy & Green Tech
Nov 28, 2016
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Researchers at UPM make available for the general public programmes to simulate the functioning and predict the energy production of photovoltaic systems.
Energy & Green Tech
Nov 15, 2016
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