Sun’s Light Powers Solar PV Panels
by Tal Potishman Solar Photovoltaic cells, also known as Solar PV, ... installations in England have been cleared for solar PV panel systems and English homeowners can also install ... current. Solar PV cells are already used in some common appliances such as watches and calculators [more...]
Date: 2008-11-11 14:11:29
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Monday: Cool Business of the Day
Today begins a series here at Killer Business Ideas we like to call the “Cool Business of the Day” ... based photovoltaics. These thin, flexible, lightweight solar cells can be incorporated ... , you can say goodbye to bulky solar panels, and hello to solar cells embedded in paint, windows, shingles [more...]
Date: 2008-12-16 04:35:34
Biofuels pioneer makes synthetic “cell engine”; first step towards artificial life
Ribosome image produced by produced by Harry Noller at the University of California Santa Cruz, Venki Ramakrishnan at the University of Cambridge, ... or “cell engine” that is found in every living organism and is the biological manufacturer ... and competes with solar thin-film photovoltaic cells in solar efficiency. The breakthrough has not yet [more...]
Date: 2009-03-09 11:06:38
Clean Tech Still Sizzles as Venture Investments Cool
Even though venture capitalists raised $28 billion in 2008 to invest in new start-ups, they are holding that money tight ... three deals were Nanosolar, a solar-cell maker that raised $300 million; Solyndra, a photovoltaic solar ... to $909 million. Venture investors continue to favor solar energy and photovoltaic companies, which [more...]
Date: 2009-01-27 01:23:36
The Future of Solar Energy Depends on Photovoltaics
Photovoltaics or PV is the area of research and technology that deals with solar cells as a source of energy by converting the sun’s rays into electricity. Every year since 2002, the production of PV cells has increased by 48%, which makes ... was produced by solar power. But what are PV’s and how do they work? The PV solar cell is composed [more...]
Date: 2009-03-21 13:30:30
Executive Bonuses Based on Carbon Reduction
Tell Your Mayor To Take Action for the Environment! The pending energy bill is crucial for the future of our planet (hence, the numerous posts)! ... are used in photovoltaic concentrator technology for solar power stations. Press Release ... Efficiency For Solar Cells Achieved: 39.7% At 39.7% efficiency for a multi-junction solar cell [more...]
Date: 2009-04-06 17:25:02
Arizona Man Discovers Way To Slash Solar Power Costs
by John HorningMichael Davis, an astronomer from Arizona, has found an inexpensive way to produce electricity that can be used to power a home ... block has been the cost of solar panels which contain electricity-producing photovoltaic (PV) cells ... in Building Your Own Solar PanelsOnce you find a source for the PV cells, the rest is relatively [more...]
Date: 2009-03-26 15:26:41
Polysilcion prices forecasted to decline in 2009
Do you know what computer chips and photovoltaic solar cells have in common? They are both would not be possible without the amazing element, Silicon. Many of the solar panels ... supply thus keeping the prices of photovoltaic solar panels out of reach of the mainstream population [more...]
Date: 2008-11-13 13:54:57
Polysilcion prices forecasted to decline in 2009
Do you know what computer chips and photovoltaic solar cells have in common? They are both would not be possible without the amazing element, Silicon. Many of the solar panels ... supply thus keeping the prices of photovoltaic solar panels out of reach of the mainstream population [more...]
Date: 2008-11-13 13:54:57
Israel Cleantech Showcase
Yesterday was the Israel Cleantech Showcase – an event cosponsored by the California Israel Chamber of Commerce ... 3GSolar, a company working on creating dye-sensitized solar modules. Like all solar cells ... . There are currently no photovoltaic power plants in Israel, though there is interest in developing [more...]
Date: 2008-11-12 21:23:03
Future For Electronics Opened Up With Domain Walls That Conduct Electricity
Press Release from Solar Night Industries 12.13.2007-Solar Night Industries (PINKSHEETS: SLND) ... from solar photovoltaic cells are emerging from computer simulations and lab tests conducted ... . Hydrogen Fuel From Woodchips And Other Non-food Sources Tomorrow’s fuel-cell vehicles may be powered [more...]
Date: 2009-04-03 17:39:02
Transparent Solar Cells Out in Market by 2009
Konarka_transparent.jpg Development of solar cells and panels focuses not only on the technical specs such as efficiency these days ... of regular solar panels, building-integrated photovoltaics (BIPVs) have been developed. Some examples ... . Aesthetics have become a big deal for solar energy, especially since a solar panel setup [more...]
Date: 2009-02-27 18:03:32
BioSolar's renewable backsheet for solar panels
Currently, photovoltaic modules in solar panels employ petroleum-based plastics as a protective backing, ... and superstrate components of solar panels. The materials have a lifespan of 20-25 years, and, most ... solar electricity costs North Carolina campus goes solar Flexible Cells to expand Solar Energy [more...]
Date: 2008-09-17 07:00:24
End of the ride
For a brief period in time, it seemed that the Chinese project to reduce carbon emissions and develop alternative sources of energy had gathered real ... of photovoltaic cells (incubating solar panel manufacturing giants like Suntech and Trina Solar in the process [more...]
Date: 2009-04-01 04:43:55
Micron Gap Thermal Photovoltaics
MTPV, a startup based in Boston that has raised $10 million, ... it up, and the light it emits is then converted into electricity by a solar cell. In a thermal photovoltaic ... so that when it gets hot, it emits light at wavelengths that a solar cell can convert efficiently. As a result [more...]
Date: 2009-01-21 08:38:39
Another interesting thin-film CIGS application
April 4, 2009 · Filed under Uncategorized Heliovolt is another company tackling the task of bringing thin-film solar technologies, ... , they are currently seeking people to partner with on photovoltaic integrated design runs. Info below ... process eliminates the expense of slicing photovoltaic circuits and assembling individual solar cells [more...]
Date: 2009-04-04 18:18:11
Credit Where Credit Is Due For Inventions
Al Gore neither invented the internet or even claimed to have done so. John McCain didn’t invent the BlackBerry ... named Alexandre-Edmond Becquerel discovered the photovoltaic effect. That was the basis of “solar ... patent for a solar cell. The history of automobiles is more complicated, but Wikipedia has the rundown [more...]
Date: 2009-02-26 00:03:11
Solar Water Heating Pays For Itself Five Times Over
An analysis of the engineering and economics for a solar water-heating system shows it to have a payback period of just two years, ... technological approaches to alternative energy sources, such as photovoltaic cells for solar power ... from the sun rather than including a waste energy-conversion step.They have compared solar hot-water production [more...]
Date: 2009-03-14 08:00:31
Alternative Energy - A Guide
by Esther Hoover Our planet is blessed with a variety of alternative energy resources - many just waiting to be used. Most people immediately think of solar energy which utilises photovoltaic cells to capture energy ... ) alternative energy source for the time being. The great arrays of triple-bladed windmills are being placed [more...]
Date: 2008-10-03 15:01:18
SunCat: solar batteries powered by sunshine
March 18th, 2009by admin | Filed under Green, Ideas, Product Design, Technic .gallery { margin: auto; } .gallery-item { ... when exposed to sunshine. His slick set of SunCat C-cells are wrapped in flexible photovoltaic panels ... that experimented with the production of flexible solar cells. They where kind enough to send [more...]
Date: 2009-03-19 00:50:43
Duke’s “Green” Ocean Conservation Center Wins Wood Design Award
Ocean Conservation Center, Duke Univ. Photo by Jeffrey Jacobs March 2, 2009 (BEAUFORT, NC) — Duke University’s Ocean Conservation Center (OCC) ... of the Wood Products Council of North America for non-residential construction. “Wood contributes ... context. Other “green” features include photovoltaic cells, geothermal heating and cooling, solar [more...]
Date: 2009-03-02 23:29:46
Solar Plane Set to Soar Over Europe
Eric Raymond is flying across Europe in an aircraft powered by the sun's rays to prove that "solar airplane" ... batteries and photovoltaic cells anytime soon. Battery weight and range remain the limiting factors ... of the continent in Sunseeker II starts Monday would be the first trans-European flight in a manned solar plane [more...]
Date: 2009-04-03 18:34:00
How Solar Panels Work
by Erick Hanifeld Global warming, caused by the abundance of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, has initiated the search for newer, ... of photovoltaic cells, many of which comprise a solar panel. There are, however, drawbacks to the installation, use and maintenance of pv solar panels. The biggest of these drawbacks are the costs [more...]
Date: 2008-11-10 14:38:10
Organic Photovotaics
Imagine a T-shirt that runs you iPod, a pair of jeans that recharges your cell phone, and a beach umbrella that runs a TV. Sound far-fetched? ... mass-produced inexpensive solar cells. For more information you may also see Thin Film Solar Panels ... Okay, I will agree with you that it does. Nevertheless, research into photovoltaics and solar [more...]
Date: 2008-12-05 17:59:01
Sencera Demonstrates 8.7% Efficient Thin-Film Silicon Solar Cell
CHARLOTTE, N.C., March 18 /PRNewswire/ -- Sencera, a manufacturer of thin-film silicon based photovoltaic modules, has successfully deposited single-junction silicon solar cells with an initial 8.7% sunlight to electricity conversion efficiency under standard test conditions. As a result, the Company has secured [more...]
Date: 2009-03-18 17:27:00
Using Solar Power As An Energy Source
Photovoltaic cells those black squares an array of which comprises a solar panel are getting more efficient, and gradually less expensive, all the time, thanks to ever better designs which all them [more...]
Date: 2009-03-21 14:35:19
British Firm Unveils EV-Charging Parking Spot
There has been plenty of interest in all-electric vehicles, but comparatively little attention paid to the infrastructure required to charge them. ( ... days?) Now Romag, a specialty photovoltaic cell manufacturer, has unveiled the PowerPark, a parking station with built-in solar cells that can charge an electric vehicle on the go.The company installed [more...]
Date: 2009-04-03 20:43:40
The Bardessono Inn and Spa, Yountville CA
Last month, I bumped into a hotel in Yountville, CA called the Bardessono ( www.bardessono.com/ ) ... -friendliness as far as they can take it. And it shows up - in the 82 geothermal wells which heat and cool the place, powered by 900 photovoltaic solar cells. The 62 guest suites have furnishings made [more...]
Date: 2009-03-18 04:57:25
Solar Batteries
Inventor Knut Karlsen has designed batteries that recharge themselves when they are exposed to sunlight; no electric power source is required! Karlsen’s SunCat batteries circumvent chargers completely by integrating solar cells within the batteries themselves. To make these prototypes he attached 1.8V flexible photovoltaic cells onto [more...]
Date: 2009-02-21 14:34:22
China Industry: Mar. 30
Mar. 30 - This is a regular series of relevant industry news from around China ... said during a two-day cross-Taiwan Strait photovoltaic solar power conference, that by cooperating ... noted that the global solar cell output in 2008 reached 6,400 megawatt-peak, 12.5 percent of which [more...]
Date: 2009-03-30 02:44:35
Alternative Energy - Reference
Alternative Energy - Reference Posted By Esther Hoover on @ 5: ... it in many different ways. Solar power which is driven by photovoltaic cells ... of “wind farms” which is the placement of great arrays of triple-bladed windmills all over the place [more...]
Date: 2008-09-23 10:11:56
British Firm Unveils EV-Charging Parking Spot
There has been plenty of interest in all-electric vehicles, but comparatively little attention paid to the infrastructure required to charge them. ( ... days?) Now Romag, a specialty photovoltaic cell manufacturer, has unveiled the PowerPark, a parking station with built-in solar cells that can charge an electric vehicle on the go. The company [more...]
Date: 2009-04-03 19:43:40
A word about Alternative Energy
by Jenny Robinson There are many different forms in which alternative energy is available. Solar power is always the obvious choice using photovoltaic cells and whereas these were ... and this can be done through the development of “wind farms” which is the placement of great arrays [more...]
Date: 2009-02-23 08:15:38
The Bullroarer - Wednesday 1st April 2009
Larvatus Prodeo - Energy. It’s what you dig out of the ground ... of clean energy innovations now powering the world. Twenty years ago, solar photovoltaic cell ... went to China — and his company Suntech is now the world's biggest producer of solar panels. In 2002 [more...]
Date: 2009-04-01 10:28:29
A word about Alternative Energy
by Jenny Robinson Fortunately for the plant, there are many forms of alternative energy. Solar power is always the obvious choice using photovoltaic cells and whereas these were ... farms” are developed by placing great arrays of triple-bladed windmills all over the place to capture [more...]
Date: 2009-02-23 08:30:34
Hot Hot Heat: U.S. Solar Costs Going Down
According to a new study conducted by the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, The average installed costs for photovoltaic cells ( ... s most amazing about this report is that it appears to validate a whole slew of state and local solar initiatives. The researchers found that—despite the many , many reported advances to solar cell [more...]
Date: 2009-02-20 18:53:00
A word about Alternative Energy
by Jenny Robinson Fortunately for the plant, there are many forms of alternative energy. Solar power is always the obvious choice using photovoltaic cells and whereas these were ... of great arrays of triple-bladed windmills all over the place. Making use of energy and having [more...]
Date: 2009-02-26 11:22:29
America Invented Everything
Two of Obama's claims from the SOTU: We invented solar technology, but we've fallen behind countries like Germany and Japan in producing it ... was photoconductive, and a French scientist named Alexandre-Edmond Becquerel discovered the photovoltaic effect ... holds the first American patent for a solar cell. The history of automobiles is more [more...]
Date: 2009-02-25 12:03:01
Mitsubishi Breaks PV Cell Efficiency Record
Mitsubishi has broken its own photovoltaic cell efficiency record in a seeming attempt to ensure domination over the solar energy industry. The company has improved the conversion efficiency rate of its PV cells to 18.9 percent— only a slight increase from the previous record of 18.6 percent. Read more of this story » [more...]
Date: 2009-02-19 21:22:21
Press Release - Xcel Energy and SunPower Sign Contract to Build 17-Megawatt Solar Photovoltaic Power Plant in Colorado
DENVER, April 7 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Xcel Energy (NYSE: XEL) and SunPower Corp. (Nasdaq: SPWRA, SPWRB), a manufacturer of high-efficiency solar cells, solar panels, and solar systems, today announced an agreement to build a 17-megawatt AC photov [more...]
Date: 2009-04-07 12:00:00
Brownback gets pork for JCCC
Good? Bad?JCCC:JCCC RECEIVES FUNDS FROM SPENDING BILLJohnson County Community College received $713, ... sources such as wind turbines, solar cells, photovoltaic modules, hybrid transportation and biofuels.The [more...]
Date: 2009-03-25 20:57:02
it just keeps geting better.....a new energy breakthrough...sort of
Cut and pasted from science daily...if you are in to alternative energy this is good news....riff Solar Cell Sets World Efficiency Record At 40 ... and for terrestrial concentrated photovoltaic arrays, which use lenses or mirrors to focus sunlight ... with a photovoltaic device that converts 40.8 percent of the light that hits it into electricity [more...]
Date: 2008-09-30 11:17:52
Horological Trivia
photo credit: Howard N2GOT Wristwatches today are fashion statements and collectible works of art ... operates a minute generator. This supplies power to a rechargeable battery which runs the watch. A solar powered watch uses light which is absorbed by a photovoltaic cell on the face to convert light [more...]
Date: 2009-04-06 12:43:07
Tod’s Solar Charger
Imagine for one quick moment that you happen to be somewhere without a power source to plug your Blackberry or iPhone into ... out your Tod’s Solar Charger. All’s good homie! This alligator skinned photovoltaic cell charger will bring [more...]
Date: 2009-01-30 16:09:22
Solar Photovoltaic Prices Seen Falling
Prices are declining for polysilicon used to make silicon photovoltaic (PV) cells. In a comprehensive report on the subject this morning, Collins Stewart solar analyst Dan Ries notes that spot... [more...]
Date: 2009-02-13 06:58:47
DelSolar to expand PV module capacity
DelSolar, a Taiwan-based crystalline silicon solar cell maker who extended its production to assembling photovoltaic (PV) modules in the second half of 2008, plans to expand its annual production capacity of PV modules from 10MWp currently to 50MWp, according to industry sources. [more...]
Date: 2009-03-11 02:18:21
Greeting the glimmering dawn in beautiful downtown Wellington NZ
*Sun peering over altipodean horizon -- and I've got wireless, so I can read Blaine Brownell proselytizing Konarka Power Plastic ... of the light spectrum than conventional solar cells and allows all visible light sources to be used ... photovoltaic (OPV) technology and is extremely lightweight and flexible. OPVs are thin films [more...]
Date: 2009-02-17 18:09:10
Make A Solar Cell From Vodka, Powdered Donuts, And Starbucks Passion Tea
By Evan Ackerman Incredibly, this is not just another piece of weird internet humor. You actually can make a photovoltaic cell with little more than high proof alcohol, powdered donuts, and purple Passion tea from Starbucks. It’s the future , people! The cell only puts [more...]
Date: 2009-03-18 04:57:10
sunlover
After the apocalypse, who ever owns one of these suckers will be king of the skies! ... s saying you’ll take a seat on a 747 sporting batteries and photovoltaic cells anytime soon. Battery ... by the sun’s rays to prove that “solar airplane” is not an oxymoron — but a viable means of air [more...]
Date: 2009-04-06 22:18:04
Swedish Solar Car Runs on Fool's Gold
Swedish supercar builder Koenigsegg brought a model of its solar-electric Quant concept car to the Geneva Motor Show and said the production model ... photovoltaic properties that are only recently being developed into commercially viable solar ... with Koenigsegg on the Quant. NLV says their Pyradian solar cells will be highly efficient, with a peak [more...]
Date: 2009-03-05 12:20:04
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