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Algorithmic breakthrough unlocks path to sustainable technologies
Jul 06, 2023 (SPX)
Publishing in the journal Nature, the Liverpool researchers have shown that a mathematical algorithm can guarantee to predict the structure of any material just...
NGO accuses Chinese renewables firms of abuses in 18 countries
Jul 06, 2023 (AFP)
China dominates the processing and refining of minerals critical to the transition to renewables -- including copper, nickel and cobalt -- and has poured invest...
Chemists discover why photosynthetic light-harvesting is so efficient
Jul 04, 2023 (SPX)
This transfer of energy through the light-harvesting complex occurs with extremely high efficiency: Nearly every photon of light absorbed generates an electron,...
COP28 host UAE pledges to triple renewables
Jul 03, 2023 (AFP)
The UAE, one of the world's biggest exporters of emissions-producing crude oil, also unveiled national strategies on hydrogen and electric cars. Few details wer...
Researchers develop a new source of quantum light
Jun 23, 2023 (SPX)
While the work is currently a fundamental discovery of these materials' capabilities, it might ultimately pave the way to new optically based quantum computers,...
NSU perovskite solar cells set new record for power conversion efficiency
Jun 23, 2023 (SPX)
To facilitate consistent comparisons and benchmarking of different solar cell technologies, the photovoltaic (PV) community uses a standard size of at least 1 c...
Climate goals need clean energy surge in Global South: IEA
Jun 21, 2023 (AFP)
To keep Paris climate temperature goals in play, annual investment for non-fossil fuel energy in these countries will need to jump from $260 billion to nearly $...
Launch of next generation photovoltaics lab
Jun 21, 2023 (SPX)
Supported by Singapore's Research, Innovation and Enterprise (RIE) 2025 Plan, this strategic investment in high-power clean energy solutions is crucial in accel...
Boric acid-anchoring hole-selective contact for perovskite solar cells
Jun 15, 2023 (SPX)
Incorporating chemically anchorable groups onto hole-transporting molecules is a feasible strategy for developing new generation of HTMs that form SAM on transp...
Solar cells can, finally, stand the heat
Jun 15, 2023 (SPX)
The operational temperature is a critical factor in a solar cell's ability to convert sunlight to free energy. Accordingly, much research has been directed towa...
Government agencies launch effort to expand use of clean-energy tax credits
Jun 14, 2023 (UPI)
The U.S. Treasury Department and the Internal Revenue Service offered guidance Wednesday to non-profits, state and local governments, as well as tribal entities...
Drawn by green subsidies, solar cell giant expands US production
Jun 14, 2023 (AFP)
The partnership along with German group BayWa r.e. will beef up capacity in Meyer Burger's Arizona production facility from 1.6 gigawatts to two gigawatts, and ...
New recipes for better solar fuel production
Jun 12, 2023 (SPX)
Recently, a team of researchers from China and the UK have found new ways to optimise the recipe for the production of solar fuels. Hydrogen is a zero-emission ...
Design proposal could double space solar cell efficiency
Jun 07, 2023 (SPX)
"I think people are slowly coming to the realization that 2D TMDCs are excellent photovoltaic materials, though not for terrestrial applications, but for applic...
Quantum visualization technique gives insight into photosynthesis
Jun 07, 2023 (SPX)
"It was hard to believe how simple coherence maps are," said Nancy Makri, a professor of chemistry at the U. of I. and the project head. "When dealing with noni...
The next generation of solar energy collectors could be rocks
May 31, 2023 (SPX)
Energy is often stored in large batteries when not needed, but these can be expensive and require lots of resources to manufacture. A lower-tech alternative is ...
Controlling crystal lattices of hybrid solar cell materials with terahertz light
May 26, 2023 (SPX)
Now, an international team of physicists and chemists from Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society, Ecole Polytechnique in Paris, Columbia University in...
The NEM 3.0 Debacle: A Dark Cloud Over California's Solar Industry
May 26, 2023 (SPX)
This new policy, which went into effect on April 14th, has sent ripples of concern through the solar industry and its consumers alike. The consequences are star...
Controlling crystal lattices of hybrid solar cell materials with terahertz light
May 26, 2023 (SPX)
The investigated hybrid LHP solar cell materials consist of an inorganic crystal lattice, which acts as periodic cages for hosting organic molecules. The interp...
Solar investment outshines oil: IEA
May 25, 2023 (AFP)
While that is a welcome development, the International Energy Agency warned that investment in fossil fuels is rising when it should be falling fast to achieve ...
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