Can solar energy be stored for future use? Solar panels have one task: they collect sunlight and convert it into electricity. But I can only produce that energy when the sun is shining. That is why the ability to store solar energy for later use is important: it helps maintain a balance between electricity production […]
Do solar panels work at night? While solar panels can still work on cloudy days, they can’t work at night. The reason for this is simple: Solar panels work due to a scientific principle called the photovoltaic effect, in which solar cells are activated by sunlight and generate electrical current. Do solar panels work on […]
A new approach to battery design could provide the key to low-cost, long-term energy storage, according to Imperial College London researchers. The team of engineers and chemists have created a polysulfide-air redox flow battery (PSA RFB) with not one, but two membranes. The dual membrane design overcomes the main problems with this […]
researchers from the iiasa energy, climate, and environment program found that agricultural efforts in downstream countries in central asia, traditionally hampered by a lack of water for irrigation during the summer growing season, would be significantly boosted with a “dual water and energy storage scheme”, which also paves the way for high shares of […]
Researchers at the University of Oklahoma, with the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, the University of North Texas, the NASA Glenn Research Center and several collaborators within the space power community, have recently published a paper in the journal Joule that describes the optimal conditions for testing perovskite solar cells for space. Perovskites […]
Renewable electricity just fell short of 100% of California’s demand Saturday for the first time, officials said, largely from large amounts of solar energy produced along Interstate 10, an hour east of the Coachella Valley. As revelers feasted in the blazing sun at the Stagecoach music festival, “at 2:50 pm (p.m.), we reached 99.87% of […]
