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  • New solar cell sets world record, focusing the power of 297 suns

    September 29, 2013 Editor 0

    A new solar cell has broken all previous solar efficiency records by achieving 44.7% efficiency, meaning it converts almost half of all the light hitting it into energy. Go to Source

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  • Surface states of ZnO nanoparticles effect on the performance of inverted-organic solar cells

    September 19, 2013 Editor 0

    Wenjing Qin, Xinrui Xu, Dongyue Liu, Chunyu Ma, Liying Yang et al.<br/> ZnO is a promising material used as the electron transport layer in the inverted organic solar cells (IOSCs). However, the electrical or photoelectric properties of ZnO nanoparticles are governed by the surface states of the nanoparticles. Here, we demonstrate that the large number […]

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  • Research team developing model for sustainable desert living

    July 22, 2013 Editor 0

    Team ASUNM, a collaborative effort between Arizona State University and the University of New Mexico, has come together to address the inefficiencies of urban sprawl and to create a model for sustainable desert living that has been dubbed SHADE, or Solar Home Adapting for Desert Equilibrium, an entry in the Solar Decathlon 2013 competition that […]

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  • Tech startup finds the ticket to growth with old ideas

    June 13, 2013 Editor 0

    A brand-new Mexican tech startup is making its products affordable using a centuries-old financing trick that lets startups and their customers shift their risk toward third-party investors. Even a $15 product is too expensive for many of the world’s poorest customers. Solar companies have made headlines in recent years with myriad solutions to making their […]

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  • Transforming solar pumping to eliminate rural poverty

    June 6, 2013 Editor 0

    Guest post by Paul Polak, author, “Out of Poverty” and founder of International Development Enterprises What if we could harness the limitless power of the sun to carry water to the crops of millions of small poor farmers around the world? If I want to water my petunias, I turn on the tap outside my […]

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  • Solar Now, Water Later

    December 25, 2012 Editor 0

    An estimated 780 million people around the world lack access to clean drinking water and 1.3 billion people are still without access to electricity. Twenty-year-old Eden Full, who has been tinkering with solar technology for more than half of her young life, saw these dual challenges and designed a dual-purpose system that uses mechanical water flow […]

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