Energy & Green Tech
An HZB team has published a report in the journal Science on the development of its current world record of 29.15% efficiency for a tandem solar cell made of perovskite and silicon. The tandem cell provided stable performance ...
Dec 10, 2020
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Energy & Green Tech
What's the cheapest, easiest way to honor the Paris Agreement of limiting the global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius? A clear and strong investment in wind and solar power. Starting now.
Dec 4, 2020
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Electronics & Semiconductors
Hydrogen gas and methanol for fuel cells, or as raw materials for the chemicals industry, for example, could be produced more sustainably using sunlight, a new Uppsala University study shows. In this study, researchers have ...
Nov 18, 2020
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Energy & Green Tech
As rooftop solar prices have fallen, many households at all income levels can now save money by going solar. Nonetheless, low- and moderate-income households remain less likely to adopt solar than high-income households. ...
Nov 9, 2020
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Electronics & Semiconductors
Carefully designed covalent organic frameworks could make supercapacitor electrodes that have a greater ability to store electric charge.
Nov 2, 2020
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Energy & Green Tech
There is huge momentum toward adoption of battery electric vehicles primarily because performances are meeting or exceeding the properties of traditional automobiles. Consumers want electric vehicles that have similar driving ...
Oct 26, 2020
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Energy & Green Tech
Launched this week in Nature Energy, a new study led by the Center for Global Sustainability (CGS) researchers examines the cost of heat pump installation in American households and the effect on house prices and home values. ...
Oct 21, 2020
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Energy & Green Tech
The share of energy from renewable sources is constantly on the rise in Germany. At the beginning of 2020, for the first time ever, renewable energy was able to cover more than half of the electricity consumed in Germany. ...
Sep 25, 2020
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Electronics & Semiconductors
Korean researchers have developed an energy harvester that can generate electric power from ambient vibrations with diverse frequencies through a novel automatic resonance tuning mechanism. It was recently announced by the ...
Sep 23, 2020
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Electronics & Semiconductors
New heat-harnessing "solar" cells that reflect 99% of the energy they can't convert to electricity could help bring down the price of storing renewable energy as heat, as well as harvesting waste heat from exhaust pipes and ...
Sep 21, 2020
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