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- New and better solar cells
- New and better solar cellsIf enough new and better monkeys flew out of my buttthey could make wind power work, provided they didn't need to eat, breath, and crap.If if if if if if.How about a solar tech that doesn't require the mining and use or production of heavy metals...
- Tags: solar cell, environment
- Discussion threads 2009-07-25
- New and better solar cells
- What semiconductors famously did for computers and digital communication, they now promise to do for solar energy. Bring more efficiency, speed and lighter weight. European researchers are working on thin film solar cells using semiconductor materials. Some day those heavy glass covered roof panels will be like...
- Tags: Solar Cell, Semiconductors, Hardware, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-07-24
- Video: The inner workings of a solar cell, explained
- The interim director of U.C. Berkeley's famed laboratory, Paul Altivisatos, talks about how solar cells work and how they can become more efficient. Here's the video. by Heather Clancy
- Tags: Solar Cell, Video, Corporate Communications, Marketing, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2009-07-23
- How does a solar cell work?
- How does a solar cell work?400,000 acres??? Guess again!Hello,I just listened to this video, and at the end he claims that California is about 400,000 acres... I did some checking, and California is 163,707 square miles as seen at http://www.enchantedlearning.com/usa/states/area.shtml times 640 acres per square mile equals 104,772,480 acres!!!Later, Ray...
- Tags: solar cell
- Discussion threads 2009-07-21
- How does a solar cell work?
- How does a solar cell work?What happenned to the Austrailian project?A couple of years ago I read the "rosie" news that Australia was helping fund an innovative solar cell factory to produce cheap solar cells in mass quantities at a cost of 50 cents per watt???Haven't heard a peep since...
- Tags: solar cell
- Discussion threads 2009-07-17
- How does a solar cell work?
- How does solar conversion work now and how do we want it to work in the future? Paul Altivisatos, interim director for Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory at UC Berkeley, explains how a solar cell works and how the solar energy of the future, via a solar fuel generator that converts...
- Tags: Solar Cell, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-07-17
- How does a solar cell work?
- How does solar conversion work now and how do we want it to work in the future? Paul Altivisatos, interim director for Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory at UC Berkeley, explains how a solar cell works and how the solar energy of the future, via a solar fuel generator that converts...
- Tags: Solar Cell, Intersolar
- Videos 2009-07-16
- (Building on flexible solar cells)
- Building on flexible solar cellsThe relevant questionsHow does the cost per unit of energy output compare? And is the material recyclable? It seems to me these are more significant than efficiency at converting light to electricity (the sun if free, after all) and the lifespan of the product (within...
- Tags: Manufacturing, photovoltaics, polymer, solar cell
- Discussion threads 2009-05-12
- Building on flexible solar cells
- Plastic solar cell maker Konarka has developed a transparent solar cell and signed a deal with Arch to integrate the cells into windows and other building materials. by CNET News.com
- Tags: Solar Cell, CNET News.com
- Image galleries 2009-05-08
- Nanomaterials for solar cells up 48% in 2008
- Despite a sluggish forecast for the overall high-tech industry in 2009, nanomaterials for solar cells grew 47% in 2008 and is projected to grow another 44% in 2009, according to The Information Network. by AM
- Tags: Solar Cell, AM
- Blog posts 2009-02-14
- Mother nature uses green tech
- Researchers in Japan and China have discovered some butterfly wings have tiny solar collectors. The scientists used mother nature's evolutionary brilliance to man-make more efficient solar cells. The research found that butterflies are far more efficient at collecting solar energy than similar man-made solar cells. ...
- Tags: Butterfly, Green Technology, Solar Cell, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-02-05
- IBM and Harvard applying tech grid ideas to solar grid research project
- The grid computing team at IBM is teaming up with researchers at Harvard University to create a solar development project on the World Community Grid. The grid project spans more than 200 countries and currently links to the processing resources of more than 1 million computers. The...
- Tags: Solar Cell, Harvard University, Grid, IBM Corp., Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-12-08
- The cost of solar cells [video]
- At the Always On Venture Summit in Half Moon Bay, Calif., a panel of solar energy executives debates whether or not silicon prices will fall as the industry matures. While they all think margins will narrow, they disagree on whether there will be an industry wide shakeout, or if the...
- Tags: Managing Director, Silicon Wafer, Solar Cell, Solar Energy, Video, Semiconductors, Telecom & Utilities, Hardware, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-12-04
- The cost of creating solar cells
- At the Always On Venture Summit in Half Moon Bay, Calif., a panel of solar energy executives debates whether or not silicon prices will fall as the industry matures. While they all think margins will narrow, they disagree on whether there will be an industry wide shakeout, or if the...
- Tags: Managing Director, Silicon Wafer, Solar Cell, Solar Energy, Semiconductors, Telecom & Utilities, Hardware, solar, energy, cells, silicon, polysilicon, silicon wafers, green, enviromental
- Videos 2008-12-04
- What a difference one atom makes
- A new study by researchers at the UCLA Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science shows exactly how important a single atom can be in a complex molecule. Reporting in the Nov. 26 edition of the Journal of the American Chemical Society, Yang Yang, a professor of materials science...
- Tags: University Of California At Los Angeles, Solar Cell, Polymer, Solarmer Energy Inc., Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-12-01
- Photos: Chasing a solar revolution in Mass.
- A look inside a pilot solar cell facility where Boston-area start-up 1366 Technologies is chipping away at the cost of solar power. by CNET News.com
- Tags: Solar Cell, Photograph, CNET News.com
- Image galleries 2008-10-17
- Nanotechnology boosts solar cells performance
- Physicists from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign UIUC have improved the performance of solar cells by 60 percent. And they obtained this spectacular result by using a very simple trick. They've coated the solar cells with a film of 1-nanometer thick silicon fluorescing nanoparticles. The researchers also said that...
- Tags: Silicon, Performance, Nanoparticle, Particle, Nanotechnology, Cell, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2007-08-21
- Solar-powered cellphones
- In "Self-powered displays keep gadgets alive," New Scientist describes two new patents granted to Nokia and Motorola which plan to improve the batteries of our favorite handhelds see below for tips on how to find a full version of a patent. While Nokia wants to develop self-powered billboards, Motorola is...
- Tags: Wireless &, Telecom, Engineering &, Innovation, Energy &, Environment
- Blog posts 2007-05-05
- Solar cell breaks efficiency record
- Solar cell breaks efficiency recordBreak even at $1 per watt would be 3 yearsToday, I pay 11 cents per kilowatt-hour from Xcel Energy. At $1 per watt, a solar panel rated at 1000 watts would cost $1000. It would take 9000 hours of use to break even. ...
- Tags: Solar Cell
- Discussion threads 2006-12-07
- More powerful solar cells
- Today, solar cells are not a very efficient way to produce electricity, even if the source of energy is free. They can be manufactured from thick crystalline silicon wafers (300 microns thick) or thinner non-crystalline ones (about 2 microns thick). But 'thin' cells built are less efficient than 'thick' ones,...
- Tags: solar cell, cell
- Blog posts 2006-09-21
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