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Testing Verifies Long Lifetime for Flexible Organic Power Plastic Solar Cells from Konarka

Konarka Technologies, an innovator in development and commercialization of Power Plastic®, a material that converts light to energy, today announced that the Energy Research Centre of the Netherlands (ECN) has verified that the company’s flexible organic based photovoltaic (PV) solar cells demonstrate outstanding high lifetime after comprehensive environmental testing under accelerated conditions, including high temperature storage and prolonged illumination

24 Jun 2008

LED Lamps Now Available for Replacing Halogen and Compact Fluorescent Lamps

Lamina Lighting Incorporated, the world leader in the development and manufacturer of high-power LED light engines, today announced immediate availability of their highly popular LED-based replacement lamp

24 Jun 2008

Report Finds That A Low Carbon Society Is Completely Feasible

The Low Carbon Society (LCS) is not a utopian vision, but is both technically and economically feasible. These are the findings from the Japan-UK Low Carbon Society project published today in a special edition of the journal Climate Policy

24 Jun 2008

DuPont Opens New Technical Center Boasting Solar Power

DuPont Microcircuit Materials, part of DuPont Electronic Technologies, recently celebrated the opening of a new technical center in Taoyuan, Taiwan. Powered in part by a 4.25 kilowatt solar panel, the center provides research, development and technical support for its customers in the photovoltaic (PV) solar energy industry who use DuPont Solamet thick film metallization pastes

24 Jun 2008

MIT and Bosch For Energy Research Collaboration to Explore New Materials and Energy Efficient Conversion and Storage

As part of the MIT Energy Initiative (MITEI), MIT and Bosch, a leading global supplier of technology and services, are forming an energy research collaboration aimed at exploring new materials and concepts for efficient energy-conversion and energy-storage systems

24 Jun 2008

Dow Corning to Cointribute to Next Generation Hybrid Vehicle

Dow Corning Corporation’s Compound Semiconductor Solutions is a key member of a Delphi Corporation-led team that was recently selected by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to lead an industry and government team to develop a next generation propulsion inverter for hybrid vehicles.

24 Jun 2008