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Nanowires fuel breakthrough for solar energy
2013-01-18 17:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: "Our findings are the first to show that it really is possible to use nanowires to manufacture solar cells," says Magnus Borgström, a researcher in semiconductor physics and the principal author. Research on solar cell nanowires is on the rise globally. Until now the unattained dream figure was ten per cent efficiency -- but now Dr Borgström and his colleagues are able to report an efficiency of 13.8 per cent. The nanowires are made of the semiconductor material indium phosphide and work like...
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How the marine snail will help build better batteries, solar cells, and drill bits
2013-01-18 17:16:05| Extremetech
The rasping organ of the humble marine snail assembles tools from the hardest known biomaterial -- fiber-reinforced crystalline magnetite. Fortunately, the marine snail has been slow to file its patents and others have now jumped in to command this newly revealed tool for themselves.
Fiddling on the roof: Can $10 million in prize money spark a solar revolution?
2013-01-18 13:08:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: Want to know the real reason that rooftop solar panels havent spread across the United States yet? Slap a few panels on your roof some night and wait for the local code enforcer to notice them. Then count the citations as they roll in. According to the U.S. Department of Energy, weve got the technology to power our lights with solar, but the red tape gets in the way. Regulatory hoops are holding up solar progress, says the agency (which is somewhat famous for its regulatory hoops), and making...
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Breakthrough for solar cell research
2013-01-18 11:00:00| LifeSciencesWorld
[NEWS] Contact: Magnus Borgström magnus.borgstrom@ftf.lth.se 46-462-221-494 Lund University In the latest issue of Science, researchers from Lund University in Sweden have shown how nanowires could pave the way for more efficient and cheaper solar cells. “Our findings are the first to show that it really is possible to …
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Chile is Undergoing a Massive Solar Boom
2013-01-18 10:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Treehugger: The sun is our most abundant and cleanest source of energy, so the faster we harness it, the sooner we'll be on our way to having a truly sustainable civilization. That's why it's so great to see solar power projects popping up all around the world, and this at an increasing rate, and with bigger and bigger projects. Chile is a good example of this new solar boom: The Centro de Energías Renovables (CER, or or Renewable Energy Center) reports that November of last year, more than 3.1 gigawatts of...
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