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Solar technology and community engagement team up to help low-income farmers in India
Apr 19, 2022 (SPX)
A team led by Stanford University developed a solar-powered technology to improve the quality and quantity of dried agricultural produce and potentially increas...
New-generation solar cells raise efficiency
Apr 14, 2022 (SPX)
The solar cell was developed by Professor Dr Thomas Riedl's group at the University of Wuppertal together with researchers from the Institute of Physical Chemis...
Engineers enlist AI to help scale up advanced solar cell manufacturing
Apr 14, 2022 (SPX)
Manufacturing perovskite-based solar cells involves optimizing at least a dozen or so variables at once, even within one particular manufacturing approach among...
You've heard of water droughts - could 'energy' droughts be next
Apr 13, 2022 (SPX)
The warning comes from Upmanu Lall, a professor at Columbia Engineering and the Columbia Climate School who has recently turned his sights from sustainable wate...
Zinc-air battery with improved performance by solar power
Apr 08, 2022 (SPX)
The Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST, President Seok-Jin Yoon) announced that its research team led by Dr. Joong Kee Lee (Energy Storage Research...
Higher solar yield, less power effort
Apr 08, 2022 (SPX)
But not all OSCs are created equal. Those based on nonfullerene-acceptors, or NFAs, have now been found to generate electricity efficiently even with a relative...
Solar cell keeps working long after sun sets
Apr 07, 2022 (SPX)
In Applied Physics Letters, by AIP Publishing, researchers from Stanford University constructed a photovoltaic cell that harvests energy from the environment du...
Why Biden extended tariffs on solar panels
Apr 07, 2022 (SPX)
As an energy analyst focused on renewable electricity generation, I follow the impact of solar policies. To understand why the tariffs were extended, it's helpf...
Seeking a third generation of better performing solar cells
Apr 07, 2022 (SPX)
Over the years, scientists have explored and developed new paradigms for solar cell designs and materials, in attempts to inch closer to and even surpass this e...
Solar power down
Apr 04, 2022 (ESA)
So ESA is working on the concept of collecting solar power up in orbit, where sunlight is up to 11 times more intense than across European territory, then beami...
Quantum 'shock absorbers' allow perovskite to exhibit superfluorescence at room temperature
Apr 01, 2022 (SPX)
Picture a school of fish swimming in unison or the synchronized flashing of fireflies - examples of collective behavior in nature. When similar collective behav...
Scientists achieve record efficiency for ultra-thin solar panels
Mar 30, 2022 (SPX)
In a paper published in the American Chemical Society's Photonics journal, the team detail how they used characteristics of sunlight to design a disordered hone...
Redwire provides solar arrays for new weather and climate research satellite
Mar 30, 2022 (SPX)
GNOMES-3, the third satellite in the GNSS Navigation and Occultation Measurement Satellite series, is designed to collect more than 2,500 radio occultation meas...
Inhibiting thermal quenching of high-efficiency quasi-2D perovskite LEDs
Mar 29, 2022 (SPX)
In a new paper published in Light Science and Application, a team of scientists, led by Professor Chuanjiang Qin from Changchun Institute of Applied Chemistry, ...
Africa can adopt renewable energy on a massive scale and save billions along the way
Mar 17, 2022 (SPX)
Africa knows where it needs to go. The big question is how. And more specifically: what is the most cost-effective energy mix that can be built to deliver all t...
UCLA materials scientists lead global team in finding solutions to biggest hurdle for solar cell technology
Mar 17, 2022 (SPX)
A research paper detailing the findings was published in Nature as an early access paper. The research is led by Yang Yang, a UCLA Samueli professor of material...
Optimizer tool designs, evaluates, maximizes solar-powered cooling systems
Mar 17, 2022 (SPX)
In the Journal of Renewable and Sustainable Energy, by AIP Publishing, researchers from Anna University in India developed an optimizer tool to design, evaluate...
Scientists fabricate novel electrical component to improve stability of solar cells
Mar 13, 2022 (SPX)
The most recent type of commercial photovoltaic cell (solar cell) uses stacked layers of crystalline silicon (c-Si) and an ultrathin layer of silicon oxide (SiO...
How to clean solar panels without water
Mar 13, 2022 (SPX)
But cleaning solar panels currently is estimated to use about 10 billion gallons of water per year - enough to supply drinking water for up to 2 million people....
Private investment in California's solar energy industry increases climate vulnerabilities, study finds
Mar 10, 2022 (SPX)
Sean Kennedy is a professor in urban and regional planning whose research interests include energy systems. He examined private investments in solar energy infr...
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