Dye-sensitized solar cells more efficient than silicon cells
Dye-sensitized Grätzel solar cells have just set a new efficiency benchmark. By changing the composition and color of the cells, an EPFL team has...
Outback Cooler to use solar energy
The concept of eco gadget means the usage of green technology and involvement of renewable energy sources for their usage.
Is not very important the...
Solar powered aircraft to break the boundaries
A Solar Ship Company from Toronto has designed a solar powered aircraft able to travel 1,000 kilometers carrying up to1,000 kilograms of cargo.
Most impressive...
Scientists to develop cheap fuel cells
Fuel cells seem like an ideal energy source—they’re clean, efficient, silent and don’t require transmission lines.
The hitch? They can be costly. Now scientists at...
New solid-state battery to give highest range for Toyota’s electric vehicles
Each brand or group of world automakers has a different approach in their movement to embrace the idea of electric vehicles.
For example, while Toyota...
Rechargeable batteries and hydrogen-fuel production cheaper now
A team of researchers at MIT has found one of the most effective catalysts ever discovered for splitting oxygen atoms from water molecules —...
Micro Wind Turbines as the next stage of the wind energy sources
Solar power and wind energy are the currently green and clean energy sources.
Because of their intermittence in generating energy at global level it contributes...
Converting the energy of waste heat occurring in integrated circuits
The heat which occurs in tiny computer processors might soon be no longer useless or even a problem. On the contrary: It could be...
Artificial leaf working as a solar cell to split water into hydrogen and oxygen
Researchers from Massachusetts Institute of Technology led by Professor Daniel Nocera have produced an artificial leaf, a device that can turn the energy of...
Hybrid solar-thermoelectric systems – A new approach to solar power
Systems to harness the sun’s energy typically generate either electricity or heat in the form of steam or hot water.
But a new analysis by...