A “Solar Sponge” Community Battery Network
Australian electricity distributor CitiPower and the Yarra Energy Foundation (YEF) hope to unlock the potential of community-scale battery storage in the Melbourne city [...]
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Bertrand Piccard: Aviation Can Address the Carbon Challenge, Here’s How
Bertrand Piccard makes no apologies for being an aviation enthusiast, and believes that despite its current woes the industry has been made a scapegoat for carbon emissions, [...]
Graphene “Armor” Enhances Perovskite for Solar
A team of researchers affiliated with UNIST has come up with a novel electrode that could greatly improve the stability of perovskite solar cells (PSCs), the most [...]
‘Zombie’ solar cells could power indoor devices without sunlight
Marina Freitag, Royal Society University Research Fellow, Newcastle University Internet connected devices need power. That either means connecting them to the grid, which [...]
Transparent Solar Panels May Change PV Integration
Transparent solar panels developed by Australian researchers are on track to revolutionize the way photovoltaics are integrated into buildings. Recent efficiency improvements [...]
Solar Cells to Generate Energy at Night
What if solar cells worked at night? That’s no joke, according to Jeremy Munday, professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at UC Davis. In fact, a [...]
High Efficiency Solar Cell Lands from Space
After developing a way to produce solar cells using materials previously considered too expensive for use on Earth, scientists at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory [...]
Carbon Nanotubes Channel Heat into Light for Solar
The ever-more-humble carbon nanotube may be just the device to make solar panels far more efficient – and anything else that loses energy through heat. Rice University [...]
“Hotspots” Boost Solar Desalination by 50%
Solar desalination methods have been around for awhile, both for powering the process, and to help with evaporation. Rice University’s solar-powered approach for [...]
Speeding Discovery of New Solar Cell Materials
A broad class of materials called perovskites is considered one of the most promising avenues for developing new, more efficient solar cells. But the virtually limitless [...]
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