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Solar energy storage using sulphur
Dec 20, 2021 (SPX)
This process is based on a chemical cycle. It involves burning sulphur in special power plant turbines and converting the exhaust gases into sulphuric acid. Usi...
Perovskite solar cell with ultra-long stability
Dec 20, 2021 (SPX)
A characteristic feature of perovskites is a specific crystal structure. Numerous material combinations of different atoms and molecules are possible, some of w...
Solar-powered solutions on the farm
Dec 17, 2021 (SPX)
Emergent Solar Energy, located in the Purdue Research Park of West Lafayette, created the system for the Corya System PCF crop production facility. It consists ...
Towards environmentally friendly solar cells
Dec 15, 2021 (SPX)
A research group led by Issei Suzuki and Sakiko Kawanishi, assistant professors at Tohoku University's Institute of Multidisciplinary Research for Advanced Mate...
Rocket Lab to acquire SolAero Holdings for its space solar power products
Dec 15, 2021 (SPX)
The acquisition aligns with Rocket Lab's growth strategy of vertical integration to deliver a comprehensive space solution that spans spacecraft manufacture, sa...
Solar parks could boost bumble bee numbers in a win-win for nature
Dec 15, 2021 (SPX)
These preliminary results will be presented at Ecology Across Borders on Monday 13 December by Hollie Blaydes, a PhD researcher at Lancaster University. Using a...
Rehabilitation of complex and degraded areas for solar power plants: project implementation experience in Ukraine
Dec 12, 2021 (SPX)
Ukrainian practice in the construction of ground-mounted and solar power stations for own needs demonstrates that, with a sound engineering and organizational a...
A tool to speed development of new solar cells
Dec 10, 2021 (SPX)
Developing new solar cells has generally been a tedious process of making small changes to one of these parameters at a time. While computational simulators hav...
Rapid rise of decarbonization potentials of rooftop PV plus EVs in residential houses
Dec 10, 2021 (SPX)
However, it was not clear which district in city could consume, generate, and store the PV electricity, as each district has different load patterns, building s...
Microgrids and solar reduce risk of power outages
Dec 09, 2021 (SPX)
New research on ways to make electrical systems more resilient and restore power to people and critical facilities faster will be highlighted during the 2021 So...
Scientists propose novel bilayer structure for crystalline silicon solar cells
Dec 09, 2021 (SPX)
The researchers combined NiOx and MoOx films into a bilayer structure that extracts "hole carriers" from c-Si more efficiently than single-layer films can. The ...
Tiny crystal of power
Dec 06, 2021 (SPX)
Working with Estonia's Tallinn University of Technology (TalTech), ESA has studied the production of sandpaper-like rolls of such microcrystals as the basis of ...
Perovskite solar cells soar to new heights
Dec 03, 2021 (SPX)
The most efficient devices, fabricated in the so called 'standard architecture' commonly include processing steps performed at high temperature, thus increasing...
Air quality models can improve the accuracy of forecasts of daily solar power production in the future
Dec 03, 2021 (SPX)
Current air quality models are a good basis for estimating the production of solar electricity. However, they should be further improved. This is the conclusion...
Efficient organic solar cells processed from green solvents
Dec 01, 2021 (SPX)
Developments in organic solar cells are rapid, and the maximum energy efficiency achieved by solar cells produced in the laboratory is currently over 18%. The e...
Directional management of interface defects achieved in perovskite solar cells
Dec 01, 2021 (SPX)
However, a large number of unfavorable defects, growing up after or during annealing process due to their ionic nature, would lead to sites of nonradiative reco...
Mystery of high performing novel solar cell materials revealed in stunning clarity
Nov 23, 2021 (SPX)
The most commonly used material for producing solar panels is crystalline silicon, but to achieve efficient energy conversion requires an energy-intensive and t...
Ultrathin solar cells get a boost
Nov 23, 2021 (SPX)
The lab of Aditya Mohite of Rice's George R. Brown School of Engineering discovered that sunlight itself contracts the space between atomic layers in 2D perovsk...
Israel, Jordan agree US-brokered solar power for water deal
Nov 22, 2021 (AFP)
Ministers from the neighbouring countries inked the US-brokered agreement at a Dubai Expo event joined by John Kerry, the US Special Presidential Envoy for Clim...
Europe's space agency reviewing space-based solar power
Nov 22, 2021 (UPI)
The ESA said it was investigating the technology necessary to deploy a space-based solar power system through an initiative dubbed Solaris. A demonstration proj...
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