Energy & Green Tech
The Russia-Ukraine crisis is already a human catastrophe. And it could also prove disastrous for climate action by slowing the global energy transition.
Mar 15, 2022
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Solar power is expected to reach 10 percent of global power generation by the year 2030, and much of that is likely to be located in desert areas, where sunlight is abundant. But the accumulation of dust on solar panels or ...
Mar 11, 2022
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Shortly before access to the BBC News website was reportedly blocked in Russia a few days ago, the BBC announced that it was resuming the broadcasting of the BBC World Service via shortwave radio for four hours per day. It ...
Mar 9, 2022
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Engineering
Solar electricity is produced almost entirely by panels, or modules, constructed with light-absorbing cells made from silicon. Silicon is the industry standard because it is reliable and inexpensive, with structure and performance ...
Mar 4, 2022
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Energy & Green Tech
Mounting evidence suggests the western United States is now in its worst megadrought in at least 1,200 years. Groundwater supplies are being overpumped in many places, and the dryness, wildfires and shrinking water supplies ...
Mar 1, 2022
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Energy & Green Tech
Using a unique hydrogel, scientists in Saudi Arabia created a solar-driven system that successfully grows spinach by using water drawn from the air while producing electricity. The proof-of-concept design, described March ...
Mar 1, 2022
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Energy & Green Tech
Two city employees of Cohoes, New York, were brainstorming how to power the city's municipal buildings with renewable energy, but few options made sense. Cohoes does not have acres of unused land for solar panels, and the ...
Mar 1, 2022
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Energy & Green Tech
Fred Closter doesn't like Florida Power & Light.
Feb 25, 2022
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Although solar cells are typically designed to turn light into power, researchers have shown that they can also be used to achieve underwater wireless optical communication with high data rates. The new approach—which used ...
Feb 16, 2022
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A study led by the University of Southampton has found that expanding green energy production sites in the future won't necessarily be a threat to protected areas of land.
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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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