When Matt McFadden came of age in southwestern Virginia in the early 2000s, he wasn’t planning on working for a clean energy outfit. He grew up playing in a high school garage band, part of his increasingly Republican county’s small punk scene. But staring out at the photovoltaic panels gleaming atop his daughter’s elementary school […]
Will nanotechnology make solar power more economical? What is the most efficient solar panel ever made? The most efficient solar cells developed by scientists offer an efficiency of 39.5% (but they are not available on the market). SunPower, Canadian Solar, REC and Panasonic offer the most efficient solar panels on the market. Which solar panel […]
South Korea’s KERI Develops Pioneering Thermoelectric Technology for Space Probes by Simon Mansfield Sydney, Australia (SPX) Oct 30, 2023 Researchers from the Korea Electrotechnology Research Institute (KERI)-Drs. SuDong Park, Byungki Ryu, and Jaywan Chung-have formulated a new approach to thermoelectric efficiency and engineered a high-efficiency, multistage thermoelectric power generator module. This development has […]
New battery technology could lead to safer, high-energy electric vehicles by Staff Writers College Park MD (SPX) Oct 30, 2023 University of Maryland researchers studying how lithium batteries fail have developed a new technology that could enable next-generation electric vehicles (EVs) and other devices that are less prone to battery fires while increasing […]
Generating clean electricity with chicken feathers by Staff Writers Zurich, Switzerland (SPX) Oct 30, 2023 The food industry generates enormous amounts of waste and by-products, including from poultry production. Each year, some 40 million tonnes of chicken feathers are incinerated. This not only releases large amounts of CO2, but also produces toxic gases […]
A step on the way to solid-state batteries by Staff Writers Washington DC (SPX) Oct 30, 2023 A lithium ceramic could act as a solid electrolyte in a more powerful and cost-efficient generation of rechargeable lithium-ion batteries. The challenge is to find a production method that works without sintering at high temperatures. In […]
