EINDHOVEN, THE NETHERLANDS – On February 16, during ceremonies on the Eindhoven High Tech Campus, TULiPPS Solar B.V. won the 2012 Dutch Solar Innovation Awards (http://www.dutchsolarawards.nl/overons.html) in the Industrial Development category. Organized by Dutch Solar Magazine, the first Dutch Solar Awards is a juried competition designed to showcase the best of the Netherlands’ solar energy sector by recognizing innovation in [...]
Fossil fuels are finite, but the sun’s energy is inexhaustible – all of our planet’s energy resources in the form of oil, coal and natural gas add up to just 20 days of sunlight. Energy from the sun is not only a dependable long-term option but clean as well, and that is why it makes [...]
As part of the Obama Administration’s blueprint for an American economy built to last, today U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced over $12 million to speed solar energy innovation from the lab to the marketplace through the Energy Department’s SunShot Incubator program. The funding will accelerate American innovation in solar energy and manufacturing by supporting [...]
Feb 9 2012 | Posted in
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Westinghouse Solar, Inc. (Nasdaq:WEST), a designer and manufacturer of solar power systems, announced today that the Company received final approvals of settlements for its outstanding class action and state derivative complaints. The suits have been dismissed in their entirety with prejudice and on the merits, resulting in a release of all claims. Additional detail of [...]
ESPOO, Finland. Â Picosun Oy, Finland-based global manufacturer of state-of-the-art Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD) equipment, reports successful final results of the European Union 7th Framework Programme funded research project ROD-SOL. The goal of this multinational, inter-European, three years (2009-2011) project combining the efforts of both scientific and industrial partners has been to dramatically increase the efficiency [...]
Jan 4 2012 | Posted in
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The U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) announced this week that Natcore Technology Inc. has been granted a patent license agreement to develop a line of black silicon products. Natcore and NREL also will enter a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) to develop commercial prototypes based on NREL’s black silicon inventions [...]
Dec 29 2011 | Posted in
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Researchers from the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) have reported the first solar cell that produces a photocurrent that has an external quantum efficiency greater than 100 percent when photoexcited with photons from the high energy region of the solar spectrum. The external quantum efficiency for photocurrent, usually expressed as a [...]
Researchers have reduced the preparation time of quantum dot solar cells to less than an hour by changing the form to a one-coat quantum dot solar paint. How? Titanium dioxide (TiO2) nanoparticles are coated with cadmium sulfide (CdS) or cadmium selenide (CdSe.) The composite nanoparticles, when mixed with a solvent, form a paste that can [...]
Company’s breakthrough technology uses sunlight, water and carbon dioxide to produce, clean, renewable natural gas HyperSolar, Inc, the developer of a breakthrough technology to make renewable natural gas using solar power, today announced that it has filed a patent application for the production of renewable natural gas using sunlight, water and carbon dioxide. This renewable [...]
Westinghouse Solar, Inc. , a designer and manufacturer of solar power systems, this week announced that the International Trade Commission (ITC) has voted to initiate an investigation on behalf of the U.S. Government to determine if Zep Solar and Canadian Solar are importing solar products that infringe on Westinghouse Solar patents. Westinghouse Solar contends that [...]
Cyclone Power Technologies Delivers Plans for Solar Engine to Renovalia Energy Cyclone Power Technologies Inc, a developer of the all-fuel, clean-tech Cyclone Engine,announced that it has delivered to Renolavia Energy SA, prototype design plans for a high-efficiency Rankine cycle engine, developed to run on solar thermal energy. The delivery satisfies Cyclone’s license agreement with the [...]
LENS (The Laboratory for Energy & Nano Sciences) has designed a very novel variation to the solar power tower. Most power towers collector solar energy with ground mounted rings of sun tracking computer controlled mirrors that focus the energy to small single point at the tower top. This single point heats water or a working fluid [...]
Legend tells of Greek engineer and inventor Archimedes using parabolic mirrors to create “heat rays†to burn the ships attacking Syracuse. Though the underpinnings of that claim are speculative at best, a modern-day team of researchers at the Scientific and Production Association in Uzbekistan has proposed a more scientifically sound method of harnessing parabolic mirrors [...]
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