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Solar mini-grids offer clean-power hope to rural Africa
Dec 08, 2023 (AFP)
Off-grid for years, her Sabon Gida village relied on diesel generators or lamps and, like millions of other Africans, Datau often got no light at all. But a yea...
China's Quest for Space-Based Solar Power: A Clean Energy Revolution
Dec 07, 2023 (SPX)
Hou Xinbin, a senior researcher at the China Academy of Space Technology in Beijing and a member of the Committee of Space Solar Power of the Chinese Society of...
Harnessing solar power for atmospheric water harvesting
Dec 07, 2023 (SPX)
The research team, led by Ruzhu Wang, has made significant strides in this direction. "This atmospheric water harvesting technology can be used to increase the ...
Innovative supercrystal material ushers new era in solar energy efficiency
Dec 04, 2023 (SPX)
Leading the research, Professor Emiliano Cortes of experimental physics and energy conversion at LMU, has taken a novel approach to harnessing solar energy. Div...
Solar-Powered Economic Growth: Qihe County's Commitment to Sustainable Energy
Dec 04, 2023 (SPX)
Zhao Jun, the director of the Comprehensive Management Department of the Shandong Qihe Economic Development Zone, highlighted the tangible impacts of these init...
Nations rally behind renewables at COP28 climate talks
Dec 02, 2023 (AFP)
With smoggy skies in Dubai highlighting the challenges facing the world, leaders at the COP28 conference threw their support behind voluntary pledges aimed at r...
Tripling renewable energy by 2030 'ambitious but doable'
Nov 30, 2023 (AFP)
If the UN forum sets that target in stone, it could become a key marker of COP28's success, especially if coupled with a pledge to drawn down fossil fuel use. -...
A spectrum of possibilities: insights into the evolution of far-red light photosynthesis
Nov 29, 2023 (SPX)
Far-red light, which falls between 700 to 800 nanometers (nm), hardly visible to the human eye, is beyond the range typically used for photosynthesis because it...
China Targets Breakthrough in Space Solar Energy Transmission
Nov 29, 2023 (SPX)
Senior researcher Hou Xinbin, a member of both the Committee of Space Solar Power of the Chinese Society of Astronautics and the Permanent Committee on Space So...
Perovskite oxide promises breakthrough in clean energy device efficiency
Nov 22, 2023 (SPX)
Clean energy technologies, pivotal for sustainable societies, are increasingly focusing on efficient and robust electrochemical devices like solid-oxide fuel ce...
Inverted perovskite solar cell breaks 25% efficiency record
Nov 21, 2023 (SPX)
By incorporating first, a molecule to address something called surface recombination, in which electrons are lost when they are trapped by defects - missing ato...
State-of-the-art solar manufacturing gets $3M boost
Nov 21, 2023 (SPX)
Backed by $3 million from the National Science Foundation, it includes partners at the University of California San Diego. The effort combines hands-on work tha...
Enact upgrades solar design software to significantly optimize design efficiency
Nov 21, 2023 (SPX)
With 3 million+ solar installations in the United States already, the installation process remains costly and often lacks speed and transparency. The Solar Desi...
Tunnelling recombination layer boosts efficiency of tandem solar cells
Nov 16, 2023 (SPX)
Due to their theoretically ultra-high efficiency and cost advantages, perovskite/silicon TSCs enjoy promising prospects in the photovoltaic industry and have at...
Stable PbS colloidal quantum dot inks enable scalable preparation of infrared solar cells by blade coating
Nov 16, 2023 (SPX)
The theoretical research shows that the tandem device consisting of a 1.55 eV perovskite top-cell and 1.0 eV PbS quantum dots (QDs) bottom-cell can achieve an i...
UAE inaugurates giant solar plant, two weeks before climate talks
Nov 16, 2023 (AFP)
The Al Dhafra plant, south of the capital Abu Dhabi, stretches over 21 square kilometres (eight square miles) of desert, an area about one-fifth the size of Par...
Novel molecular bridge strategy boosts efficiency of perovskite solar cells
Nov 16, 2023 (SPX)
The results were published in Energy and Environmental Sciences. Perovskite solar cells have garnered considerable attention due to their remarkable power conve...
Momentus testing new spacecraft engine and solar array design
Nov 15, 2023 (SPX)
The MET is the Vigoride Orbital Service Vehicle's (OSV) primary propulsion method that relies on solar power and uses water as a propellant. The Vigoride OSV ha...
Solar-powered device produces clean water and clean fuel at the same time
Nov 14, 2023 (SPX)
It takes its inspiration from photosynthesis, the process by which plants convert sunlight into food. However, unlike earlier versions of the 'artificial leaf',...
Scientists propose parallel planar heterojunction strategy for efficient solar cells
Nov 13, 2023 (SPX)
One of the current challenges in the terrestrial utility of photovoltaic electricity is the absence of low-cost, efficient, and stable materials as well as the ...
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