Boost the cells’ absolute efficiency up to 8.1 percent Researchers from Australia’s Swinburne University of Technology – along with colleagues from Suntech Power Holdings... Read more
Here’s some amazing tech from Japan: Tokyo-based Mebiol is working on an membrane–based plant cultivation technology called Imec that makes it possible to let plants grow on thin film instea... Read more
Everlasting batteries and self-powered portable electronics have come one step closer to reality, according to the results of new research by Australian scientists from the Royal Melbourne I... Read more
Image via Wikipedia A new process will make solid-state rechargeable batteries that should greatly outperform existing ones ELECTRONICS made a huge leap forward when the delicate and tempera... Read more
Using carbon nanotubes, however, Cornell University researchers now hope to lead the way to the next generation of highly efficient solar panels. Read more
Image via CrunchBase Renewable energy technologies will never get off the ground until they become cheaper than fossil fuels. Today, Nanosolar CEO Martin Roscheisen says his startup took a s... Read more
Research has already shown that at the nanoscale, chemistry is different and the same is apparently true for light, which Engineers at Stanford University say behaves differently at scales o... Read more
Imagine if all the windows of a building, and perhaps even all its exterior walls, could be put to use as solar collectors. Soon, you may not have to imagine it, as the Norweigan solar power... Read more