If you thought Light Emitting Diode Lighting was space age then you’ll be enlightened by the news of a new upstart glowing in the future. Nano Fiber Lights are looking to compete. Nano fibers are tiny, around the diameter of a human hair. They can emit light using an amount of energy that is 5 times less than the older [...]

The California Institute of Technology are developing flexible solar cells that may prove to be cheaper and more efficient than current types on the market. This is a new breed of cells that uses thin silicon wires embedded in a polymer substrate along with light scattering particles. If you are lost then don’t worry, so am I. This technology is [...]

At last an idea that could change the world and give free energy to everybody on the planet and it is all powered by water. Unfortunately it doesn’t exist but coming close is a fuel cell that can use salt water being developed by a south Korean company. Named the MetalCell, this is a fuel cell that generated power by [...]

The Solar Energy Industry has become mainstream as an alternative way of producing energy. For what might become available in the on coming years we need to have a little look as what is happening in the research Laboratories. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has been busy working on Printed Solar Cells.  Using carbon based dyes the team have [...]

Generating power does require a fuel source. The old methods of using stored energy in the form of coal or oil use energy which has been charging up for millions of years. Modern and renewable energies do no have this luxury of  time and mostly generate power in real time. The down side of this is that the fuel source [...]

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 sense it is still [...]

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 much space. The Li-on [...]

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 Impulse, which would [...]

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 are looking to further [...]

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 photovoltaic panels but the specific [...]