Most Tunisian schools are cash-strapped and run down, but an innovative project has allowed one to become self-sustaining by generating its own solar power and growing its own food. Today the man behind the initiative hopes the success of the rural Makthar boarding school can serve as a model to improve the crumbling public school […]
NIMS has developed a durable 1-cm2 perovskite solar cell capable of generating electricity for more than 1,000 continuous hours at a photoelectric conversion efficiency (i.e., power generation efficiency) of more than 20% in exposure to sunlight. Because this solar cell can be fabricated on the surface of a plastic material at approximately 100 C, […]
“Don’t panic,” said Heather Mirletz at the Colorado School of Mines, co-author of a recent paper that challenges some assumptions about what might happen as the current generation of solar panels near retirement age. He has some encouraging news for anyone who is concerned, or even a little nervous, about how the world will deal […]
Solar panels in space could collect the sun without filtering the atmosphere It seems too good to be true: a plan to harvest solar energy from space and transport it to Earth with microwaves. But it is something that could happen as soon as 2035, according to Martin Soltau, the co-president of the Space Energy […]
MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. – Solar energy made headlines in the weeks following Hurricane Ian after one Florida community that is 100 percent solar-powered never lost power during the storm. But despite the benefits that technology can provide, some users feel that there are still too many obstacles. In 2017 Cindy Lewis lost her home in […]
NASA and several other national space agencies have recently revived their lunar colonization programs. One of the key factors that needs to be solved is how to power a future such colony. Can uninterrupted solar power feasibly be realized without energy storage? On Earth, providing 100% of electricity demand 100% of the time solely […]
