Solid state solar panels are more affordable, say researchers, don't leak

Source: Engadget

Researchers at Northwestern University have found one way to stop a leak: get rid of the liquid. A new variation on the Grätzel solar cell replaces a short-lived organic dye with a solid alternative. The molecular dye the solid substance replace ...
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Slow But Micro Powerful: Living Snail Turned Into Fuel Cell

Source: Planet Save

I’m sure that if gastropods (snails and their ilk; word mean “stomach-foot”) could speak, they’d have a few words of protest over this exploitation of their enzymes… but one snail at least has been ‘harvested’ — for its energy output — without being harm ...
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Out of the box: Alternative energy campaign launched

Source: The Express Tribune Pakistan

Work in the sun? Interested in a solar-powered fan hat? Whilst building solar-powered shelter homes for flood refugees in Badin and Kashmore, two districts in Sindh regularly treated to temperatures of ab ...
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Editorial Board: The trouble with tariffs

Source: The Washington Post

TARIFFS ARE clumsy weapons. See, for example, those the Commerce Department began fully enforcing against China’s solar-cell producers last week. An American solar-cell manufacturer complained last year that its Chinese ...
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British solar cell company G24 Innovations wins Las Vegas order

Source: This Is Money

After six years of intensive research, Britain’s most advanced solar cell company, G24 Innovations, has won its first major order – powering the blinds in one of the world’s biggest gambling hotels in Las Vegas. Anyone staying at ...
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Solar Cell Efficiency Breathrough from Northwestern University Researchers

Source: Humanitarian News

A team of researchers at the Northwestern University has advanced up with an innovative breakthrough in solar cell efficiency. The researchers have shaped up a reliable dye-sensitized solar panel that is cheaper and can ensure better power ef ...
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Australian researchers tackle emissions

Source: The Nation - Thailand

Clean coal is a must given that coal accounts for the majority of fuel used in power generation. At present, coal is the main resource accounting for 80 per cent of total resource, to produce electricity in Australia because the co ...
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Solid-State Dye-Sensitized Solar Cell Matches Performance of Grätzel Cell

Source: Nanotech Now

Abstract: In the past, I have tried to dispel the myth that nanotechnology could be waved over alternative energy applications to make them suddenly much more economically viable than they have been. In these ...
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Liquid solar cells: an innovative hazard

Source: ITWorld.com

As the race to find real renewable energy keep increasing its pace, some really innovative ideas have come out of some pretty poisonous materials. Take the University of Southern California's development with cadmium nanocrystals that ...
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