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Electrical Vehicle Batteries Could have a Second Life as Backup Storage for Solar Farms

As electric vehicles rapidly grow in popularity worldwide, there will soon be a wave of used batteries whose performance is no longer sufficient for vehicles that need reliable acceleration and range.

22 May 2020

Is this the Future of Solar Energy Generation?

Imagine the environmental benefits if we could simply paint solar cells onto the roofs of our houses, or onto any surface for that matter.

20 May 2020

Novel, 'Green' Quantum-Dot Solar Cells Exhibit Remarkable Defect Tolerance

Novel quantum dot solar cells developed at Los Alamos National Laboratory match the efficiency of existing quantum-dot based devices, but without lead or other toxic elements that most solar cells of this type rely on.

19 May 2020

Photosynthetic Processes Re-Engineered to Create Renewable Bio-Factories

Hydrogen is an essential commodity with over 60 million tons produced globally every year. However over 95 percent of it is made by steam reformation of fossil fuels, a process that is energy intensive and produces carbon dioxide.

8 May 2020

Protein System Enables Sustainable Solar-Powered Devices

At the University of Bristol, a group of researchers has designed a new photosynthetic protein system that facilitates a more sustainable and improved approach to solar-powered technological devices.

25 Mar 2020

Reducing Molecular Vibration-Induced Voltage Losses in Solar Cells

Researchers at TU Dresden and Hasselt University in Belgium examined the physical causes that restrict the efficiency of the advanced solar cells based on organic molecular materials.

23 Mar 2020

Veolia help Group Water Scheme Launch Solar Energy Project

Polecat Springs Group Water Scheme (GWS), working with Veolia, has become the first Group Water Scheme to use renewable energy to directly power its water treatment plant.

6 Mar 2020

Breakthrough: Thin-Film Solar Cells Generate as Much Energy as Traditional Solar Cells for the First Time

Scientists from Hasselt University, imec, VITO and international partners within the PERCISTAND consortium have become the first to achieve an energy efficiency of 25 percent with a thin-film solar cell.

29 Feb 2020

Ground-Breaking Solar Powered Unmanned Aircraft Makes First Flight

Persistent High Altitude Solar Aircraft (PHASA-35®) has the potential to stay airborne for a year. PHASA-35, a 35 m wingspan solar-electric aircraft, has successfully completed its maiden flight. The landmark flight paves the way to this new aircraft becoming a game changer in the air and space market, plugging the gap between aircraft and satellite technology.

19 Feb 2020

Transparent Solar Panels can Help Greenhouses Turn Energy Neutral

A majority of the greenhouses can be made energy neutral by utilizing transparent solar panels to harvest solar energy, mainly from the wavelengths of light that are not used by plants for photosynthesis.

10 Feb 2020