“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 [...]
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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 [...]
Compact Solar Unit Yields 250 Liters of Hydrogen per Day
The amount of energy needed to produce hydrogen, as well as the required materials has long been a challenge for renewable power researchers in order to make it scalable for [...]
NREL IDs Markets for Flexible Solar
Thin film photovoltaic (PV) cells have been a target of some skepticism due to cost and scale-up issues for high-performance microcells. However, with new advances, [...]
Solar Cell Generates Hydrogen and Electricity in Parallel
In the quest for abundant, renewable alternatives to fossil fuels, scientists have sought to harvest the sun’s energy through “water splitting,” an artificial [...]
“Solar Cell Flow Battery” Shows High Efficiency
While many utilities and solar farm developers are rushing to connect solar capacity to large batteries, a research team is taking a different approach by making the solar [...]
“Funnel Vision” May Triple Solar Efficiency
A team of researchers from the University of Exeter has discovered an innovative way for generating photovoltaic energy. The new technique relies on ‘funnelling’ the [...]
Zero-Energy Cooling: Coming to a Building Near You
We’ve seen a lot of media coverage about the detrimental effect of cooling buildings, especially in increasing hot climates, which significantly contributes to global [...]
Is E.coli Key to More Efficient Solar?
E.coli and solar are not usually two terms we mention in the same sentence. E.coli bacteria are responsible for some of the worst food poisoning outbreaks in the world, while [...]
Plug and Play Summit: Building Energy
If you’re looking for the next wave of energy technology that’s just over the horizon, you don’t have to go much farther than Plug and Play’s Summer [...]
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