(Phys.org)—A team of researchers working at the Korea Research Institute of Chemical Technology in South Korea, has found a way to make fabricating perovskite based solar cells that is both more efficient and costs less ...
Never lacking daring ideas, billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk is determined to jolt the electricity market.
Energy & Green Tech
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Global investments in renewable energy rebounded strongly last year, registering a solid 17% increase after two years of declines and brushing aside the challenge from sharply lower crude oil prices.
Energy & Green Tech
Mar 31, 2015
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In a broad new assessment of the status and prospects of solar photovoltaic technology, MIT researchers say that it is "one of the few renewable, low-carbon resources with both the scalability and the technological maturity ...
Mar 27, 2015
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A major Japanese machinery company said Friday that it has succeeded in transmitting energy wirelessly, marking a step toward making solar power generation in space a reality.
Energy & Green Tech
Mar 13, 2015
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Scientists at VTT have developed a prototype of a tree that harvests solar energy from its surroundings - whether indoors or outdoors - stores it and turns it into electricity to power small devices such as mobile phones, ...
Energy & Green Tech
Feb 16, 2015
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It's been more than 40 years since astronauts returned the last Apollo samples from the moon, and since then those samples have undergone some of the most extensive and comprehensive analysis of any geological collection. ...
Space Exploration
Feb 12, 2015
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This week in the journal Science, Los Alamos National Laboratory researchers reveal a new solution-based hot-casting technique that allows growth of highly efficient and reproducible solar cells from large-area perovskite ...
Materials Science
Jan 29, 2015
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A team of University of Wisconsin-Madison engineers has developed a new tool to help plot the future of solar fuels.
Energy & Green Tech
Jan 23, 2015
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University of Nebraska-Lincoln engineers have doubled the efficiency of a prominent solar cell technology by unraveling the origins of a phenomenon known to hinder cell performance, stability and evaluation.
Energy & Green Tech
Dec 15, 2014
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