100-percent-plus in operating solar cells
Researchers from the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) have reported the first solar cell that produces a photocurrent that has...
More efficient solar energy technology
Dr. Ahmed El-Shafei’s research group invented a new “sensitizer,” or dye, that harvests more ambient and solar light than any dyes currently on the...
A novel way to capture sun’s thermal energy
Most technologies for harnessing the sun’s energy capture the light itself, which is turned into electricity using photovoltaic materials. Others use the sun’s thermal...
Google and its renewable energy solar power project
Google announced its Renewable Energy Cheaper than Coal project focused on advancing a type of concentrating solar power technology in a solar power tower.
The...
Using solar energy to create renewable natural gas
HyperSolar, Inc. (OTCBB:HYSR), the developer of a breakthrough technology to make renewable natural gas using solar power, today disclosed more information from...
Sunbox a new solar charging device for eco gadgets
Eco gadgets need power supply in a greener way.
Lack of access to an electrical infrastructure because living in developing countries or living in wilderness...
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...
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...