Don’t throw away your batteries just yet. But on developments at the Imperial College in the United Kingdom might see us all with portable products that do not need batteries in the future.
The Brits are working on lightweight materials that can store electricity, but you may be asking is that just a battery. In a [...]
Panasonic have revealed snippets of information about their Lithium-Ion storage device which will be suitable for domestic use.
Clean Energy production in the home is dynamic and for the home user the need for storage devices for that excess electricity has been a problem. Large banks of lead-acid batteries can be costly and take up too [...]
The solar Impulse aircraft has taken a small step in its bid to fly around the world.
Boeing has made its first flight of its efficient airliner, the 787 Dreamliner, but that is no match to the plans of Bertrand Piccard. It is his hope to fly around the world in his experimental plane, named the [...]
Solar cell technology is primarily silicon based, that is refined sand to you and me, which has come leap and bound in production and efficiency. While they may be idea for many applications such as roof mounted solar panels they do not lend themselves easily to integration in to other uses or materials like clothing.
Scientists [...]
In Los Angeles, Solarmer Energy have just broken their own record in solar efficiency. Solarmer produce plastic solar cells as opposed to the common photovoltaic silicon bases solar cells. Their previous record was a 6.77% conversion of solar in to electricity and now they have increased that to 7.6%. This conversion is much lower than [...]
The efficiency of photovoltaic solar panels, in plain language, can have two meanings. Without getting in to boring technical and mathematical explanations, hopefully this quick explanation of solar efficiency will help.
The first one is how well the solar cells themselves convert the suns energy in to electrical power. For the second meaning this applies to [...]
Opponents of solar energy production often cite the fact that no energy is produced when the sun doesn’t shine. That is a fact that cannot be dismissed. Solar storage is possible, on the small scale we have the portable solar battery charges for your mobile phones and mp3 players. These, while enough to power those [...]