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Study Finds Solar Geoengineering Would Change Extratropical Storm Tracks

How can the world combat the continued rise in global temperatures? How about shading the Earth from a portion of the sun's heat by injecting the stratosphere with reflective aerosols?

3 Jun 2020

Risen Reaffirmed as India's Number 1 PV Supplier

Risen Energy Co., Ltd, a leading, Tier 1 manufacturer of high-performance solar photovoltaic products, was recently reaffirmed as maintaining its all-out, leading volume supplier of solar PV modules status for 2019, by the venerable Bridge to India's insight into the Indian renewable energy arena.

From Risen Energy Co., Ltd, 2 Jun 2020

Electrical Vehicle Batteries Could have a Second Life as Backup Storage for Solar Farms

As electric vehicles rapidly grow in popularity worldwide, there will soon be a wave of used batteries whose performance is no longer sufficient for vehicles that need reliable acceleration and range.

22 May 2020

Novel, 'Green' Quantum-Dot Solar Cells Exhibit Remarkable Defect Tolerance

Novel quantum dot solar cells developed at Los Alamos National Laboratory match the efficiency of existing quantum-dot based devices, but without lead or other toxic elements that most solar cells of this type rely on.

19 May 2020

Photosynthetic Processes Re-Engineered to Create Renewable Bio-Factories

Hydrogen is an essential commodity with over 60 million tons produced globally every year. However over 95 percent of it is made by steam reformation of fossil fuels, a process that is energy intensive and produces carbon dioxide.

8 May 2020

Protein System Enables Sustainable Solar-Powered Devices

At the University of Bristol, a group of researchers has designed a new photosynthetic protein system that facilitates a more sustainable and improved approach to solar-powered technological devices.

25 Mar 2020

Reducing Molecular Vibration-Induced Voltage Losses in Solar Cells

Researchers at TU Dresden and Hasselt University in Belgium examined the physical causes that restrict the efficiency of the advanced solar cells based on organic molecular materials.

23 Mar 2020

Veolia help Group Water Scheme Launch Solar Energy Project

Polecat Springs Group Water Scheme (GWS), working with Veolia, has become the first Group Water Scheme to use renewable energy to directly power its water treatment plant.

6 Mar 2020

Transparent Solar Panels can Help Greenhouses Turn Energy Neutral

A majority of the greenhouses can be made energy neutral by utilizing transparent solar panels to harvest solar energy, mainly from the wavelengths of light that are not used by plants for photosynthesis.

10 Feb 2020

Japan’s NEDO and Panasonic Achieve the World’s Highest Conversion Efficiency of 16.09% for Largest-Area Perovskite Solar Cell Module

Panasonic Corporation has achieved the world's highest energy conversion efficiency of 16.09% for a perovskite solar module (Aperture area 802 cm2: 30 cm long x 30 cm wide x 2 mm thick) by developing lightweight technology using a glass substrate and a large-area coating method based on inkjet printing.

7 Feb 2020