New Technique Yields a Major Boost in Solar-Cell Efficiency
In a newly published study, MIT researchers detail the technique they used to develop a photovoltaic device that generates more than one electron per photon,…
In a newly published study, MIT researchers detail the technique they used to develop a photovoltaic device that generates more than one electron per photon,…
Scientists have developed black titanium dioxide nanoparticles that are able to absorb infrared as well as visible and ultraviolet light, improving the efficiency with which…
Using boron nitride nanotubes, researchers have discovered a new method for harnessing energy from the salinity difference between fresh water and salt water. The salinity…
UCLA physicists have demonstrated that an electron beam can be accelerated by a laser in free space. Accelerating a free electron with a laser has…
Researchers have taken a step forward towards producing artificial photosynthesis systems that would provide clean, green and renewable energy. Using pulses of X-rays from SLAC’s…
In two newly published studies, Yale researchers detail a cost-effective way to improve the efficiency of crystalline silicon solar cells through the use of carbon…
A new study details how scientists developed the conceptual nuclear reactor design of high plutonium breeding by light water cooling, which may help advanced countries…
In a newly published study, UC Davis scientists detail how they engineered cyanobacteria to grow chemical precursors for fuels and plastics, taking a step forward…
GE’s latest wind technology development is fabric-covered wind turbine blades, which are supposed to even more efficient that the fiberglass that is used now. The…
According to the latest annual PV cost-tracking report from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, the median installed price of residential and commercial solar photovoltaic power…
Using a fermentation process used in World War I to make cordite for bullets and artillery shells, researchers at the Berkeley Lab effectively combined an…
Scientists at Stanford University have put together the first solar cell that’s entirely made up of carbon, which is a promising alternative to the expensive…
The London Array is the world’s largest offshore wind farm, and it’s currently under construction in the outer Thames Estuary in the UK. The goal…
As large power plants are replaced by multiple photovoltaic panels on roofs, biogas systems on fields, and wind turbines on hills and offshore, scientists now…
In an effort to replicate the cellulose-destroying capabilities of anaerobic fungi in yeast and create a potentially cost-effective single-organism process for manufacturing cellulosic biofuels, MIT…
A newly published study from Stanford scientists details the advanced weather model they developed, showing that there is plenty of wind to provide half the…
As scientists continue to search for alternatives to platinum catalysts, Caltech chemists have determined the dominant mechanism for cobalt catalysts, paving the way for the…
Solar energy collection has had some vast improvements over the last few years; however these new prototypes from German-born, Barcelona-based architect André Broessel are quite…