Energy & Green Tech
A trio of researchers at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne has found that solar panels could provide a lot more power for Switzerland than has been previously thought. In their paper published in Proceedings of ...
Robotics
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 ...
Energy & Green Tech
Oregon State University scientists have found a resource to increase agricultural production on dry, unirrigated farmland—solar panels.
Nov 2, 2018
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Energy & Green Tech
In solar industry news, there have been a number of conversations surrounding the Gallium Arsenide (GaAs) thin film solar panels from Hanergy Thin Film Power Group's US subsidiary Alta Devices, based in Sunnyvale California.
Energy & Green Tech
Renewable energy solutions are often hindered by the inconsistencies of power produced by wind, water and sunlight and the continuously fluctuating demand for energy. New research by Mark Z. Jacobson, a professor of civil ...
Feb 8, 2018
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(Phys.org)—Imagine a solar power plant with a rollable solar field—a mat rolled out in minutes that can give stranded residents the power they need to get by. That is reality, as a company's portable solar power technology ...
Energy & Green Tech
(Tech Xplore)—A 150 megawatt solar thermal plant near the town of Port Augusta, South Australia, is in the news; the facility, known as Aurora, is from SolarReserve. This is a US-based company that is a developer, owner ...
Energy & Green Tech
(Tech Xplore)—China is addressing its environmental future. One sign is a floating solar farm power plant built on a former coal-mining area, and the floating power plant has been successfully connected to the grid, in ...
Energy & Green Tech
A team of scientists at the University of Cambridge has developed a way of using solar power to generate a fuel that is both sustainable and relatively cheap to produce. It's using natural light to generate hydrogen from ...
Mar 13, 2017
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Eighteen light sources arranged in a half-sphere can mimic the equivalent of several thousand times the sun's radiation received on earth, with unparalleled power and precision. This system, developed by an EPFL laboratory, ...
Sep 21, 2016
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