A common refrain from people who oppose renewable energy sources such as solar and wind is that they are unreliable, because they only generate energy when the sun shines or the wind blows. It is a persistent complaint. I’ve been reporting on energy issues for years now, and I remember one utility executive in Florida […]
Students in a hands-on infrastructure class at the Cornell Jeb E. Brooks School of Public Policy are pushing government officials in Puerto Rico and Washington, D.C. to promote rooftop solar energy and have developed a policy proposal that promotes the use of solar energy in the most vulnerable communities. Puerto Ricans have suffered constant and […]
Gadvi Kailashben, a 42-year-old widow, lives in Modhera, home to the age-old Sun Temple and now the first village in India to run on solar energy. He earns a little income from farming which he uses to take care of his family. The Government installed solar panels on his house which gave him much needed […]
A research team, affiliated with UNIST has succeeded in achieving a power conversion efficiency (PEC) of 23.50% in a perovskite-silicon tandem solar cell built with a special textured anti-reflective coating (ARC) polymeric film. According to the research team, the PCE of the device with the ARC film was sustained for 120 hours, maintaining 91% […]
Two-dimensional covalent organic frameworks (2D COFs) are a new class of organic semiconductors, and have recently demonstrated great potential for solar fuel production. They are generally formed from the ordered p-p stacking of molecular layers, and usually possess periodic columnar p-arrays that can facilitate the interlayer charge transfer. Furthermore, the ordered assembly of organic […]
France is pulling out of a 1994 treaty that had the effect of protecting investment in fossil fuels when Europe is retooling towards a greener future, President Emmanuel Macron announced Friday. “France has decided to withdraw from the Energy Charter Treaty,” he told a news conference in Brussels after an EU summit, two days after […]
