Over the past 5 years, the price of solar panels has dropped dramatically while efficiency of solar arrays has increased significantly. Yet, it appears that the renewable energy revolution continues to make life better and cleaner for many of us! The University of Texas at Austin announced this month that one of its solar researchers [...]
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At the University of Texas at Austin, researchers are working on solar technology that has the promise of increasing solar cell efficiency from the current 30% conversion rate, up to over 60%. Scientists have been advancing new research on semiconductor nanocrystals, or quantum dots, that can be used in photovoltaic panels to trap some of [...]
Three cheers for solar technology advancements! This latest one comes from sunny Caltech (you might know it as California Institute of Technology). Researchers there have created a new flexible solar cell, which takes long, thin silicon wires and embeds them into a polymer substrate. The result is an inexpensive solar cell that can efficiently convert [...]
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