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Self-cleaning solar panels and windows move closer with a new hydrophilic coating on ultra-thin glass

Self-cleaning solar panels and windows move closer with a new hydrophilic coating on ultra-thin glass

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Using your home solar panels to charge your electric vehicle

Using your home solar panels to charge your electric vehicle

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Placing solar panels on agricultural lands maximizes their efficiency

Placing solar panels on agricultural lands maximizes their efficiency

The most productive places on Earth for solar power are farmlands, according to an Oregon State University study. The study, published today in the journal Scientific Reports, finds that if... Read more

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Transforming lighting technology and photovoltaics so you can paint them on

Transforming lighting technology and photovoltaics so you can paint them on

LED lights and monitors, and quality solar panels were born of a revolution in semiconductors that efficiently convert energy to light or vice versa. Now, next-generation semiconducting mate... Read more

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New double-glazing solar power device aims for more advanced photovoltaics

New double-glazing solar power device aims for more advanced photovoltaics

A new ‘double-glazing’ solar power device — which is unlike any existing solar panel and opens up fresh opportunities to develop more advanced photovoltaics – has bee... Read more

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New technique offers spray-on solar power

New technique offers spray-on solar power

Pretty soon, powering your tablet could be as simple as wrapping it in cling wrap. That’s Illan Kramer’s (ECE) hope. Kramer and colleagues have just invented a new way to spray solar cells o... Read more

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Scientists Get to the Heart of Fool’s Gold as a Solar Material

Scientists Get to the Heart of Fool's Gold as a Solar Material

As the installation of photovoltaic solar cells continues to accelerate, scientists are looking for inexpensive materials beyond the traditional silicon that can efficiently convert sunlight... Read more

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Proteins that replace silicon: A semi-artificial leaf faster than “natural” photosynthesis

Proteins that replace silicon: A semi-artificial leaf faster than “natural” photosynthesis

This procedure yields the highest photocurrents observed to date for semi-artificial bio-photoelectrodes while the electron transfer rate exceeds by one order of magnitude the one observed i... Read more

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A Solar Boom So Successful, It’s Been Halted

A Solar Boom So Successful, It's Been Halted

Photovoltaics proved so successful in Hawaii that the local utility, HECO, has instituted policies to block further expansion William Walker and his wife, Mi Chong, wanted to join what... Read more

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New solar cell design based on dots, wires could be cheaper and more efficient

New solar cell design based on dots, wires could be cheaper and more efficient

One advantage of quantum dot-based PVs is that they can be tuned to absorb light over a much wider range of wavelengths Using exotic particles called quantum dots as the basis for a photovol... Read more

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Solar Power Day and Night

Solar Power Day and Night

KIT Controls Fluctuation of Renewable Energies by Using Modern Storage Systems Energy storage systems are one of the key technologies for the energy turnaround. With their help, the fluctuat... Read more

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Opening the Door to More Widespread Solar Energy Devices

Opening the Door to More Widespread Solar Energy Devices

Low-cost, high efficiency solar cells to be made from virtually any semiconductor material A technology that would enable low-cost, high efficiency solar cells to be made from virtually any... Read more

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A new dimension for solar energy

A new dimension for solar energy

Innovative 3-D designs from an MIT team can more than double the solar power generated from a given area Intensive research around the world has focused on improving the performance of solar... Read more

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Solar cell turns windows into generators

Solar cell turns windows into generators

Adding transparent solar cells to the glass would be a relatively small cost Imagine a world where the windows of high-rise office buildings are powerful energy producers, offering its inhab... Read more

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Breakthrough could double solar energy output

Breakthrough could double solar energy output

Using ordinary sunlight he’s getting 44% efficiency   A new discovery from a chemist at the University of Texas at Austin may allow photovoltaic solar cells to double their efficiency,... Read more

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