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Sustainable Cooling System Based on Solar Energy Could be Used for Refrigeration and Living Space Cooling

A simple cooling system driven by the capture of passive solar energy could provide low-cost food refrigeration and living space cooling for impoverished communities with no access to the electricity grid.

21 Sep 2021

New Conjugated Polymer can Improve the Performance of Organic and Perovskite Solar Cells

Skoltech researchers and their colleagues have synthesized a new conjugated polymer for organic electronics using two different chemical reactions and shown the impact of the two methods on its performance in organic and perovskite solar cells.

16 Sep 2021

Empa Scientists Push the Efficiency of Flexible Solar Cells to a New Limit

A group of scientists at Empa has pushed the efficiency of flexible solar cells to a new limit. Independent measurements revealed an efficiency of 21.4 percent when these types of solar cells convert light into electricity. For comparison: the best efficiency of a non-flexible solar cell made of crystalline silicon is reported at 26.7 percent.

8 Sep 2021

Automated Tool Uses Satellite Images to Map Sustainable Rooftops Globally

Dr Filip Biljecki, Presidential Young Professor from the Department of Architecture at the National University of Singapore (NUS) School of Design and Environment, and NUS Master of Architecture graduate Mr Abraham Noah Wu developed an automated tool that uses satellite images to track how rooftops around the world adopt solar panels and/or vegetation.

7 Sep 2021

Novel Approach to Desalinate Water with the Help of Solar Energy

A new desalination technology developed by power engineers at the Ural Federal University (UrFU) could considerably decrease the cost associated with water desalination and increase the production volume by four times.

30 Jul 2021

Sun's Radio Waves Could be Used to Measure the Depth of Ice Sheets

The sun provides a daunting source of electromagnetic disarray - chaotic, random energy emitted by the massive ball of gas arrives to Earth in a wide spectrum of radio frequencies.

15 Jul 2021

How Electric Vehicles are Charged Relates to Decrease in Greenhouse Gas Emissions

In the United States, the transport sector contributes the largest amount of greenhouse gas emissions. More attention is given to electric passenger vehicles and their ability to help decrease such emissions.

13 Jul 2021

Plummeting Cost of Solar Photovoltaics Could Help Revise Plans for Dams

For many countries in Southeast Asia, huge hydropower plants are considered a key source of clean and inexpensive electricity. Yet, dams tend to affect the environment and pose dreadful impacts to local communities.

7 Jul 2021

Aussie-made Tindo Solar Panels Power Queensland’s Remote Parks

The Queensland government is using Australia-made solar panels as it replaces the power systems at its remote National Park facilities.

2 Jul 2021

Paving the Way to Artificial Photosynthesis—Effect of Doping on the Photocatalyst SrTiO3

While the material strontium titanate has shown immense potential as a photocatalyst in solar energy conversion, it is unclear whether chemical defects can influence its properties.

30 Jun 2021