Massive Ivanpah Project Goes Live
The world’s largest concentrating solar plant is now sending electricity to the grid from California’s Mohave Desert - Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System. Spread out over 3,500 The post Massive...
View ArticleFlexible Supercapacitors: Graphene Breakthrough Achieved
A research group from the University of Texas at Austin led by Prof. Yu Guihua working in collaboration with a research team The post Flexible Supercapacitors: Graphene Breakthrough Achieved appeared...
View ArticleDOE: 4 Technologies Changing the World
The Department of Energy was founded b President Carter to deal with the effects of the 1970′s energy crisis. The DoE and The post DOE: 4 Technologies Changing the World appeared first on Solar Feeds.
View ArticleFUTUREWATCH: Energy Harvesting Mobile Devices
Energy-harvesting technology is on upward spiral and will fuel an increasing number of consumer and industrial products in the future without the The post FUTUREWATCH: Energy Harvesting Mobile Devices...
View ArticleFUTUREWATCH: Invisible Wind Turbines
Testing has begun on the innovative mini-wind-turbine blade designed by the famous Genoese architect Renzo Piano and developed in partnership with Enel The post FUTUREWATCH: Invisible Wind Turbines...
View ArticleSilicon Supercapacitor Built by Researchers
Researchers at the Vanderbilt University in Nashville propose a novel silicon supercapacitor design. Such supercapacitor can be, theoretically, integrated into a silicon The post Silicon Supercapacitor...
View ArticleEVERY New Power Plant in October was Solar
Utilities cut the ribbons on several new solar photovoltaic and solar thermal power plants in October. And all 530 megawatts of the The post EVERY New Power Plant in October was Solar appeared first...
View ArticleChina: Now The World’s Largest Solar Market
In October 2013 NPD Solarbuzz Inc. (Santa Clara, California, U.S.) published a new analysis which estimates that China represented 25% of the The post China: Now The World’s Largest Solar Market...
View ArticleCan This Battery Save Energy Storage?
A team of Harvard scientists and engineers has demonstrated a new type of flow battery that could fundamentally transform the way electricity is stored on the grid, making power from renewable energy...
View Article15.6% Efficient Graphene PV Device Developed
Earlier this week Spanish scientists at the Universitat Jaume I in Castelló’s Group of Photovoltaic and Optoelectronic Devices (DFO) and the University of Oxford published research in the journal Nano...
View ArticleSugar to Power Future Electronic Gadgets?
Some sweet engineers at Virginia Tech have developed a high-energy battery that runs on all natural sugar, and it could be sweetly powering your smartphone in three years. Y.H. Percival Zhang, an...
View ArticleFreeGreenius: An App for Finding Renewable Energy Locations
The German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) has released a free version of the simulation program FreeGreenius. The program brings together technical and commercial...
View ArticleWill Technology Get Us Environmental Science Answers?
Everyone is towards being the leader on everything. Talk about globalization, every country wants to take the lead and become the leading country. Because of this, workforce and industrialization are...
View Article7 Ways Solar is Killing It
Things are looking up for the solar energy industry. Its growth has skyrocketed over the past few years and is projected to endure. If current trends continue, solar will account for 10% of American...
View ArticleHow Students Are Powering The Future
Every day, I wake up to the buzz of my (energy-powered) smart phone, still benumbed from a good night’s sleep and slightly reluctant to make my way through the electric mist of yet another morning. I...
View ArticleSolar Fuel Cell Converts Biomass to Electricity
Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have developed a new type of low-temperature fuel cell that directly converts biomass to electricity with assistance from a catalyst activated by...
View ArticleLightweight Lithium Batteries through Nanotechnology
Zhaolin Liu from the A*STAR Institute of Materials Research and Engineering in Singapore, in collaboration with Aishui Yu and co-workers from Fudan University in China, has developed a carbon nanotube...
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The Thinnest LED EVER
University of Washington scientists have built the thinnest LED ever. It can be used as a source of light energy in electronics. The LED is based off of two-dimensional, flexible semiconductors,...
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Gold Coating: Reducing Solar Glare
A new work by UC Irvine scientists could reduce glare from solar panels and electronic displays and dull dangerous glints on military weapons. “We found that a very simple process and a tiny bit of...
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Why the White House Loves Solar Power
Even with a 60% drop in the price of solar panels since 2011, the deployment of solar energynationally has needed a boost to compete with heavily subsidized fossil fuels. The federal government is one...
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