Growing crops at solar farms can boost panel performance, longevity by Blaine Friedlander for Cornell Chronicle Ithaca NY (SPX) Mar 13, 2023 Growing commercial crops on solar farms can both increase commercial food production and improve solar panel performance and longevity, according to new Cornell University research published in the journal Applied Energy. […]
Latin America poised to become renewable energy giant: report By Joshua Howat Berger Rio De Janeiro (AFP) March 9, 2023 Latin America is poised to become a major renewable energy producer, with nearly a billion solar panels’ worth of large-scale clean-electricity projects slated to come online in the next seven years, a report […]
Which Australian state has the most solar panels? Overall, Queensland remains the nation’s leader in rooftop solar, outstripping the other states with almost 88,000 more installations than its nearest rival, New South Wales. What percentage of Australians have solar panels? Roy Morgan’s latest research shows that over 3.2 million Australian homes (32.3% of all households) […]
Electric vehicle batteries could get big boost with new polymer coating by Staff Writers Berkeley CA (SPX) Mar 08, 2023 Scientists at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have developed a conductive polymer coating – called HOS-PFM – that could enable longer lasting, more powerful lithium-ion batteries for electric vehicles. “The […]
High initial costs of material and installation and long return on investment (however, with the reduction in the cost of solar energy in the last 10 years, solar is becoming more feasible every day) Needs a lot of space as the ‘efficiency is still not 100%. There is no solar power at night, so a […]
