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The Sierra SunTower power plant in Lancaster, California

New Solar Power Material Converts Almost All Captured Light into Heat

Marc Maligalig |

Oct 31, 2014 03:05 AM EDT

The whole-day production of CSP plants is a big advantage over photovoltaic solar plants.

Swiss Tech Company Claims to Make Near-Invisible Solar Modules

Marc Maligalig |

Oct 29, 2014 04:01 PM EDT

The Swiss Center for Electronics and Microtechnology, anon-profit company for applied research, said Tuesday that it has found a way to make solar modules with no visible connections and cells, which can blend with a building's "skin" to become virtually invisible.

Harvesting Hydrogen Fuel with Solar Energy

Marc Maligalig |

Sep 25, 2014 06:32 PM EDT

Michael Grätzel and his team at the Laboratory of Photonics and Interfaces at École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne in Sweden have developed dye solar cells that imitate the photosynthesis in plants and techniques for making fuels, such as hydrogen, through solar water splitting.

U.S. Plan of Switching to Natural Gas Won't Reduce its CO2 Emissions

Marc Maligalig |

Sep 25, 2014 12:54 AM EDT

Abundant natural gas does not significantly lower greenhouse gas emissions.

Improved Batteries to Make Renewable Energy More Competitive

Marc Maligalig |

Sep 23, 2014 05:00 AM EDT

Lowering the operating temperature of the power cell will extend the working life and design of the battery.

Team Improves Efficiency of Solar Cells with New Polymer

Marc Maligalig |

Sep 20, 2014 06:57 AM EDT

PID2 improved the efficiency of electrical power generation by 15 percent.

Japan to Build World's Largest Floating Solar Power Plants

Cory Doyle |

Sep 10, 2014 03:04 AM EDT

The two new plants will be located at Nishihira Pond and Higashihira Pond in Kato City, in the Hyogo region.

Tandem Solar Cells Designed After Buddhist Singing Bowls

Marc Maligalig |

Sep 08, 2014 09:32 PM EDT

By layering two different kinds of solar panels on top of another in tandem, an efficiency of 30 percent could be attained.

An older version of a luminescent solar concentrator

New Type of Solar Concentrator is Completely Transparent

Marc Maligalig |

Aug 20, 2014 09:23 AM EDT

A new kind of solar concentrator creates energy from solar rays without disrupting the opacity of awindow.

The Pacific Northwest National Laboratory campus at Richland, Washington.

New Battery Tech Promises Huge Advance in Renewable Energy Storage

Marc Maligalig |

Aug 18, 2014 08:33 PM EDT

Researchers have solved a number of the problems that hinder sodium-beta batteries.

Solar Powered Plane A Step Closer to a Trip Around the World in 2015

Christl Leong |

Jun 03, 2014 09:43 AM EDT

A solar-powered plane completed its maiden flight successfully on Monday, bringing it a step closer to its intended goal to a trip around the world targeted next year.

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