Energy Research Project for Alternative Energy, Renewable Energy, and Green Energy Technologies

1. World’s Largest Solar Boat Prepares for World Tour
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PlanetSolar enjoys the distinction of being the largest solar-powered boat in the world, and it’s ready to take on the world. This beauty’s vital stats are: weight: 60-ton, a 470-square-meter ...

2. Honda Solar Hydrogen Station Introduced to Green Car Market
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Honda finally unveiled their new solar hydrogen solar station and all signs point to a dramatic success. The station is smaller than previous models and enables an electric car owner to refill their ...

3. Chevron to build solar plant at NM tailings site (AP)
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AP - A subsidiary of oil giant Chevron Corp. plans to build what New Mexico officials say will be the largest solar power plant in the nation that uses lenses to focus sunlight onto solar cells. ...

4. Solar Cells from Tobacco Plants May Be a Reality Soon
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... Berkeley. It will be nice to see tobacco used for something other than lung cancer. This new discovery is based [...] Posted in: Biofuels, PhotoVoltaics, Solar Power  ...

5. Trends & Innovations - Thursday (Investor's Business Daily)
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Investor's Business Daily - Tobacco plants could play a part in the production of solar power cells, says a Discovery News report citing research at the Univ. of Calif., Berkeley. Genetically engineered ...

6. Self-Assembling Solar Cells
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... saw an apple falling from a tree, salad dressing can inspire scientists towards a brand new type of solar [...] Posted in: Inventions, PhotoVoltaics, Solar Power  ...

7. Revolutionary Tiny Solar Cells
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Tiny, glitter-sized solar cells have been developed by the Scientists at Sandia National Laboratories. It might turn out to be the perfect alternative energy preference for the holiday season. This ...

8. Cleantech’s emerging importance for aviation
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A variety of new energy solutions are emerging in aviation, including solar power, biofuels and onboard fuel cells. Cleantech's Stephen Marcus wonders when any of these will reshape the way we travel across the ...

9. Japan's Tokai University Solar Car Wins the Global Green Challenge
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Powered by Sharp multijunction solar cells developed for satellites, the Tokai University Solar Car blazed 3,000 kilometers down the center of Australia at an average speed of 62 miles per hour to win ...

10. Energy researchers find Obama an eager student
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... self-assembled by genetically engineered viruses; long-lasting high-efficiency light bulbs; windows that can double as solar energy collectors; and structures that could provide offshore windmills with ...

11. New IMEC Solar Cells: 18.4% Conversion Efficiency
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IMEC (Interuniversity Microelectronics Center) has presented a large-area solar cell with 18.4% conversion efficiency at the ongoing European Photovoltaic Solar Energy Conference (Hamburg, Germany). ...

12. Trends & Innovations - Tuesday (Investor's Business Daily)
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Investor's Business Daily - Solar panels made out of special semiconductors could produce electricity at a similar cost as the electricity produced by coal. Nanosolar, a technology firm in San Jose, Calif., ...

13. First 3D Images of Polymer Solar Cells
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The Eindhoven University of Technology and University of Ulm scientists have successfully developed the first high-resolution 3D images of the internal structure of a hybrid polymer solar cell. This ...

14. More Efficient Solar Cells with Carbon Nanotubes
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Silicon is one of the basic but expensive materials used in designing solar panels. If we can use something else as effective as silicon but more economical, solar power will be within the reach of ...

15. Trends & Innovations - Thursday (Investor's Business Daily)
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Investor's Business Daily - Highways could soon produce electricity using built-in solar panels. Solar Roadways, a startup in Sagle, Idaho, developed a prototype solar road panel that can generate 7.6 ...

16. PlanetSolar picks SunPower’s cells for next-gen catamaran
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Around the world in 140 days: Swiss boat maker is planning to take its vessel on a world tour powered only by renewables.

17. Solar Cells To Be Printed Like Newspaper
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... biggest disadvantages is it is still out of reach for the common man and it has a long break-even period. Unless [...] Posted in: Inventions, PhotoVoltaics, Solar Power  ...

18. Powerful Ideas: Spray-On Solar Cells (LiveScience.com)
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LiveScience.com - Editor's Note: This occasional series looks at powerful ideas - some existing, some futuristic - for fueling and electrifying modern life.

19. UAVs to be Powered by Dye-sensitized Solar Cells
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... sleepless nights on their projects to find an all-pervasive alternative to fossil fuels. How can we utilize the [...] Posted in: Inventions, Solar Power, Transportation  ...

20. ENN Solar shows off tandem junction tech at Intersolar
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Chinese thin-film developer says power output per installed watt of its new silicon thin-film solar products is higher than conventional PV cells. ...

21. Highly Adaptable Solar Cells
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There are two things that prevent solar cells from entering the mainstream: their prohibitive cost, and their inadaptability. Even if people can somehow overcome the cost barrier, the havoc they allegedly ...

22. Lasers Make Solar Cells Competitive
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... It is destroying our environment and making us pay in other terms. Another problem we are facing is, what were luxuries for [...] Posted in: Inventions, PhotoVoltaics, Solar Power  ...

23. Superhydrophobic: Self-cleaning Photovoltaic Cells
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A team of scientists at the Georgia Institute of Technology has developed a new treatment for silicon photovoltaic solar cells. This new method generates bumps and peaks on the surface that increase ...

24. The Shining Prize: Solar Power
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It is starting to appear that a Moore's Law of endlessly doubling technological innovation may be just around the corner for the solar power industry, along with drastically falling prices for photovoltaic ...

25. Solar car completes 1st ever round-the-world trip
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POZNAN, Poland (AP) -- The first solar-powered car to travel around the world ended its journey at the U.N. climate talks Thursday, arriving with the message that clean technologies are available now to ...

26. IXYS Launches Solar Power Battery Charger Evaluation Boards
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EVIX-10 - This highly configurable evaluation board provides 10 'Solar Bits' which can be individually set to series or parallel configuration with the other cells. ... ...

27. Spray-on Solar Panels
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Solar cells are usually made of silicon coated with a thin layer of silicon nitrate. This silicon nitrate works as an anti-reflective agent to boost cell efficiency. But the catch is these types of ...

28. Solar Energy from Butterfly Wings?
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Everyone believing in clean and green energy knows its drawbacks. Those working on improving solar energy want to improve solar cells’ light harvesting efficiency. So that more and more solar light ...

29. Plastic Solar Cells For Electronic Devices
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Currently silicon-based solar cells are flooding the market. Industry pundits can foresee a hopeful future for low-cost, flexible solar cells. If we can make solar devices other than silicon based materials ...

30. Sanyo, Nippon Oil announce solar power tie-up
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Japan's Sanyo Electric Co. and Nippon Oil Corp. said Friday they would collaborate to produce thin-film solar cells for large-scale power generation. ... ...