Scientists in the United States and Saudi Arabia have harnessed the abilities of both a solar cell and a battery in one device a “solar flow battery” that soaks up sunlight and…
Category: Solar
Extending Life of Solar Panels by doing Real-time diagnostics of Health Data
Purdue researchers created an algorithm using the physics of panel degradation that can analyze solar farm data from anywhere, essentially as a portable EKG for solar farms. Real-time diagnostics would ultimately inform…
Device makes clean water with paper and sunlight
The idea of using energy from the sun to evaporate and purify water is ancient. The Greek philosopher Aristotle reportedly described such a process more than 2,000 years ago. Now, University at Buffalo…
See-through Organic Solar Cells using Buckyballs
University of Michigan researchers have found a way to coax electrons to travel much further than was previously thought possible in the materials often used for organic solar cells and other organic…
Transparent solar technology represents ‘wave of the future’
According to a new research report published in Nature Energy, See-through solar materials that can be applied to windows represent a massive source of untapped energy and could harvest as much power…