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Electrical and electronic scrap (e-scrap) is now one of the fastest growing types of waste. E-scrap includes a wide array of old electronic devices that includes large household appliances such as refrigerators or air-conditioning ...
Dec 13, 2018 feature
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A team of researchers at the MIT Media Lab built a cyborg that combines a plant with electronics and ultimately allows the plant to choose when it would like to move to a brighter spot. The cyborg is the brainchild of team ...
Dec 05, 2018 report
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Energy & Green Tech
Rigid silicon solar panels dominate the utility and residential markets, but opportunity exists for thin-film photovoltaic and emerging technologies notable for being lightweight and flexible, according to scientists at the ...
Nov 15, 2018
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Energy & Green Tech
Oregon State University scientists have found a resource to increase agricultural production on dry, unirrigated farmland—solar panels.
Nov 02, 2018
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Ian Marius Peters, now an MIT research scientist, was working on solar energy research in Singapore in 2013 when he encountered an extraordinary cloud of pollution. The city was suddenly engulfed in a foul-smelling cloud ...
Aug 29, 2018
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Energy & Green Tech
Greenhouses have a long list of benefits: higher food production, less water use, potentially less pesticide use, a year-round growing season. There's a problem: they're expensive, both to install and to operate. But thanks ...
Jul 24, 2018
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UNSW solar energy researcher and Scientia Fellow Dr. Xiaojing Hao and her team have achieved two energy efficiency world records for the solar cell material of the future, sulfide kesterite.
Jul 24, 2018
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Californians love renewable energy. In fact, California just became the first state to require solar panels on all new homes.
May 24, 2018
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Engineering
Imagine standing in front of a wall of windows, surveying the view. You hear someone enter the room behind you. You turn. "Welcome," you say. "Here is the video I wanted to show you." At the press of a button, the view vanishes ...
May 11, 2018
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In an advance that makes a more flexible, inexpensive type of solar cell commercially viable, University of Michigan researchers have demonstrated organic solar cells that can achieve 15 percent efficiency.
Apr 23, 2018
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Imagine buying a solar panel from a hardware store, mounting it on your roof, then selling the green electricity you produce at a price you set.
Jan 08, 2018
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Where the solar panel meets the road—China is putting a solar highway to the test. The Hindu along with a number of other sites carried reports of the photovoltaic road project The Hindu, referring to reports from Xinhua, ...
Jan 04, 2018 weblog
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The U.S. solar industry is nervously awaiting President Donald Trump's decision whether to impose punitive duties on imported solar panels and related equipment or even restrict some of those imports altogether. It could ...
Dec 22, 2017
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A solar train has been launched in Byron Bay, Australia. The announcement was sent out by the Byron Bay Railroad Company.
Dec 20, 2017 weblog
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(Tech Xplore)—The phrase "solar energy" often brings to mind large solar panels on the roofs of homes and businesses or huge arrays sprawled across sunny fields. But there is a need for low-light photovoltaics – materials ...
Dec 01, 2017 feature
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A photovoltaic module or photovoltaic panel is a packaged interconnected assembly of photovoltaic cells, also known as solar cells. The photovoltaic module, known more commonly as the solar panel, is then used as a component in a larger photovoltaic system to offer electricity for commercial and residential applications.
Because a single photovoltaic module can only produce a certain amount of wattage, installations intended to produce larger electrical power capacity require an installation of several modules or panels and this is known as a photovoltaic array. A photovoltaic installation typically includes an array of photovoltaic modules or panels, an inverter, batteries and interconnection wiring.
Photovoltaic systems are used for either on- or off-grid applications, and for solar panels on spacecraft.
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