Energy News
Posted on May 13, 2013 at 07:18:09 pm
Most Americans want the U.S. to place more emphasis on developing solar power, recent polls suggest. A major impediment, however, is the cost to manufacture, install and maintain solar panels
Posted on March 26, 2013 at 12:09:45 pm
Scientists at the University of East Anglia have made an important breakthrough in the quest to generate clean electricity from bacteria
Posted on February 12, 2013 at 09:48:52 am
Emissions from coal power stations could be drastically reduced by a new, energy-efficient material that adsorbs large amounts of carbon dioxide, then releases it when exposed to sunlight
Posted on January 30, 2013 at 07:02:33 pm
Hydrogen has tremendous potential as an eco-friendly fuel, but it is expensive to produce. Now researchers at Princeton University and Rutgers University have moved a step closer to harnessing nature to produce hydrogen for us
Posted on January 30, 2013 at 09:33:54 am
With the latest discovery by scientists from Nanyang Technological University (NTU), current cooling systems which uses refrigerant harmful to the ozone layer could be replaced by a revolutionary cooling system using lasers.
Posted on January 27, 2013 at 07:39:08 am
The sun's energy is virtually limitless, but harnessing its electricity with today's single-crystal silicon solar cells is extremely expensive -- 10 times pricier than coal
Posted on January 23, 2013 at 07:39:56 am
Super-small particles of silicon react with water to produce hydrogen almost instantaneously, according to University at Buffalo researchers
Posted on January 18, 2013 at 08:20:05 pm
In a remarkable feat, scientists at Empa, the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, have developed thin film solar cells on flexible polymer foils with a new record efficiency of 20.4% for converting sunlight into electricity
Posted on December 11, 2012 at 08:47:32 pm
Rose madder -- a natural plant dye once prized throughout the Old World to make fiery red textiles -- has found a second life as the basis for a new "green" battery
Posted on December 08, 2012 at 10:41:39 pm
Princeton researchers have found a simple and economical way to nearly triple the efficiency of organic solar cells, the cheap and flexible plastic devices that many scientists believe could be the future of solar power
