Energy & Green Tech
Solar power systems with double-sided (bifacial) solar panels—which collect sunlight from two sides instead of one—and single-axis tracking technology that tilts the panels so they can follow the sun are the most cost ...
Jun 3, 2020
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Energy & Green Tech
According to FAO estimates, by 2025 nearly 2 billion people may not have enough drinking water to satisfy their daily needs. One of the possible solutions to this problem is desalination, namely treating seawater to make ...
Dec 17, 2018
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Energy & Green Tech
The researchers behind an energy system that makes it possible to capture solar energy, store it for up to 18 years and release it when and where it is needed have now taken the system a step further. After previously demonstrating ...
Apr 11, 2022
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Energy & Green Tech
Southwest Research Institute worked with government and commercial collaborators to successfully develop and demonstrate full-scale turbomachinery for one of the world's first supercritical carbon dioxide (sCO2) power systems ...
Jan 17, 2022
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Engineering
Northwestern University researchers have raised the standards again for perovskite solar cells with a new development that helped the emerging technology hit new records for efficiency.
Nov 18, 2023
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Energy & Green Tech
Hydrogen will play a key role in reducing our dependence on fossil fuels. It can be sustainably produced by using solar energy to split water molecules. The resulting clean energy can be stored, used to fuel cars or converted ...
Apr 30, 2019
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Energy & Green Tech
The energy produced over the lifetime of typical rooftop solar panels more than makes up for the energy it takes to make, mount and then eventually recycle them. But adding a home battery usually lowers those dividends, according ...
Apr 9, 2019
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Hardware
An inexpensive piece of hardware integrated with solar panel controllers can protect isolated power networks from cyberattacks.
Nov 25, 2022
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Electronics & Semiconductors
When it comes to the future of solar energy cells, say farewell to silicon, and hello to calcium titanium oxide—the compound mineral better known as perovskite.
Aug 3, 2020
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Energy & Green Tech
Tulane University researchers are part of a team of scientists who have developed a hybrid solar energy converter that generates electricity and steam with high efficiency and low cost.
Jul 15, 2020
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