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Chickens Get New Sustainable Home at College Farm

A new hen house was just completed by faculty, staff and students at Green Mountain College, a four-year liberal arts school that emphasizes environmental sustainability throughout its curriculum

8 Apr 2009

Scientists Create New Type of Solar Cells Using Diatoms

Engineers at Oregon State University have discovered a way to use an ancient life form to create one of the newest technologies for solar energy, in systems that may be surprisingly simple to build compared to existing silicon-based solar cells

8 Apr 2009

Solar Cell Development to Benefit From IMEC Expansion

IMEC, the Belgian nanoelectronics research institute, has announced that it has begun expanding its Leuven campus facilities. With this extension, IMEC will expand its research on low-cost and high efficiency solar cells, and biomedical electronics

8 Apr 2009

Solar Power Revolution Begins With $1 Per Watt Solar Modules

The $1 per Watt revolutionary price level could be sufficient to create sustainable growth in the solar energy market (PV) even without the availability of any government incentives

7 Apr 2009

Solar Hot Water Program on Track in Australia

The Queensland Bligh Government has commenced its election commitment to provide 200,000 Queensland households with affordable solar hot water systems in a bid to radically cut household energy use and greenhouse gas emissions

7 Apr 2009

Latest NASA Data Shows Arctic Sea Ice Is Disappearing

The latest data from NASA and the University of Colorado at Boulder's National Snow and Ice Data Center show the continuation of a decade-long trend of shrinking sea ice extent in the Arctic, including new evidence for thinning ice as well

6 Apr 2009

Forecast Report Released into the Worldwide Electric Vehicle Market

Worldwide Nanotechnology Electric Vehicle EV Market Shares Strategies and Forecasts 2009 to 2015 report released

6 Apr 2009

Swinburne University and Suntech Power to Develop Solar Cells That Are Twice as Efficient But Half the Current Cost

The Swinbourne University and Suntech will collaborate to develop solar cells that are twice as efficient and run at half the cost of those currently available

6 Apr 2009

Spire Semiconductor Wins Contract to Develop Highly Efficient Solar Cells

Spire Semiconductor, LLC, has been awarded an 18-month, $3,706,359 program by the Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) to develop next-generation manufacturing technology to produce 42% efficient III-V three junction tandem concentrator solar cells

6 Apr 2009

Satellite Data Shows Arctic Ice Cover is Shrinking and Thinning

The latest Arctic sea ice data from NASA and the National Snow and Ice Data Center show that the decade-long trend of shrinking sea ice cover is continuing

6 Apr 2009