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Lightyear One widest range solar energy car runs for free

Adrian — Thu, 07 May 2020 16:02:34 +0000

Lightyear One and its performance An interesting piece of information caught my attention, a new electric car called Lightyear One that runs only on solar energy and has a very long range, perhaps the largest at the moment for an electric one. To get the information from the source I went to their official site: […]

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Printed solar cells to produce green electricity

Adrian — Wed, 24 Jun 2015 18:20:41 +0000

Solar cells declined costs in decades Solar power has declined dramatically its cost over the past decades. We could say that was a decrease from $40 per watt in 1978 to $0.42 per watt in 2015. In the next three years the cost of production for conventional crystalline silicon solar panel could attend more than […]

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Swiss solar powered aircraft to energy efficiency

Adrian — Tue, 09 Jun 2015 21:11:57 +0000

The Swiss team composed by: Andre Borschberg and Bertrand Piccard were stopped by the weather in their attempt to circumnavigate the Earth in an experimental solar powered aircraft called Solar Impulse 2. The weather conditions worsened soon after embarking and the solar powered aircraft was forced to land on June 1st in Nagoya, Japan after […]

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Ecocapsule – your future off-grid dwelling

Adrian — Mon, 25 May 2015 14:14:59 +0000

I waited too long time the occurrence of grid-off caravan. I’m surprised it has not appeared sooner. Prolonged dependence of conventional fuels for most of the cars, some interests of big manufacturers or fuel suppliers, prohibitive prices and of course no real autonomy made them to remain only toys for big boys. This case the […]

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CZTS the next level for IBM photovoltaic scientists

Adrian — Tue, 21 Aug 2012 12:27:25 +0000

According to IBM photovoltaic scientists, copper, zinc, tin and selenium – CZTS, will yield efficient thin-film solar cells made from abundant materials. Photovoltaic scientists from IBM Teodor Todorov and David Mitzi detailed the findings of a paper that describes the highest efficiency for solar cells made from CZTS. The technical paper published in Advanced […]

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New type of photovoltaic device harnesses heat radiation that most solar cells ignore

Gabriel — Thu, 21 Jun 2012 19:48:41 +0000

About 40 percent of the solar energy reaching Earth’s surface lies in the near-infrared region of the spectrum — energy that conventional silicon-based solar cells are unable to harness. But a new kind of all-carbon solar cell developed by MIT researchers could tap into that unused energy, opening up the possibility of combination solar cells […]

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Underwater solar cells to harvest renewable energy

Adrian — Fri, 15 Jun 2012 21:08:58 +0000

A team from US Naval Research Laboratory leaded by Philip Jenkins recently demonstrated a method for harvesting solar power underwater at depths of 30 feet. Due to this source of renewable energy underwater, long term installations of autonomous systems will have enough power to work properly. As Jenkins says, this technology is meant to be […]

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Underwater solar energy

Gabriel — Thu, 07 Jun 2012 19:14:51 +0000

Underwater autonomous systems and sensor platforms are severely limited by the lack of long endurance power sources. To date, these systems must rely on on-shore power, batteries or solar power supplied by an above water platform. Attempts to use photovoltaics have had limited success, primarily due to the lack of penetrating sunlight and the use […]

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Solar cell raises the bar for low-cost designs

Gabriel — Thu, 24 May 2012 18:57:32 +0000

Researchers have tapped a novel material to develop a low-cost, efficient, and environmentally friendly solar cell. In particular, the device is the first to solve the problem of the Grätzel cell, a promising technology with a significant disadvantage: it leaks. The dye-sensitized cell’s electrolyte is made of an organic liquid, which can leak and corrode […]

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‘Green’ steel and solar cells win Australian innovation awards

Gabriel — Sat, 19 May 2012 20:12:11 +0000

Two UNSW-developed technologies have been recognised with Collaborative Innovation Awards at the Cooperative Research Centres Association conference in Adelaide this week. Low-cost Pluto solar cells with record-setting efficiency and ‘green’ steel, which uses recycled rubber car tyres and plastics rather than fossil fuels in the steel-making process, were among five winning technologies. Scientia Professor Veena […]

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