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Carbon Could Be Solar Power Breakthrough

Carbon and solar energy are two of the most plentiful resources on Earth, and researchers at Northwestern University say they have found a way to use one...


Pythagoras Solar windows and energy breakthrough

A lot of sunlight hits tall office buildings, only to go to waste. Their relatively small roofs don’t offer much space for solar panels. A solar...


Green Technology Breakthroughs of 2011

In light of the growing threat of global warming and other environmental catastrophes, the need for new green technology that will contribute in saving the...


Solar Fire Breakthrough

Ladies and gentlemen, we have a breakthrough on the Solar Turbine project. We are adopting the Solar Fire concentrator technology as our official solar energy platform. OSE and...


Photovoltaic and Solarthermal hybrid technology: MIT and Boston College

Researchers at Boston College and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have produced a single technology that accomplishes what is currently only accomplished with two...


Solar Power Breakthrough Could Render Photovoltaic Cells Obsolete

A dramatic and surprising magnetic effect of light discovered by University of Michigan researchers could lead to solar power without traditional semiconductor-based solar cells. The researchers...


Breakthrough solar panel demoed that could let future iPhones soak up rays

French company Wypsis is drumming up a superthin solar panel layer (less than 100 microns) that could juice a phone from outdoor light. A deal...


Solar Power Breakthrough Claimed By Stanford Researchers

It’s the Holy Grail at clean energy research labs all over the world and something which could address long term energy issues domestically and beyond:...


India: First Solar Water Heater CDM project

India’s first Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) project with solar thermal technology was formally registered on 12 November 2010 by the CDM ...


Self Cleaning Oven Sparks a Solar Power Breakthrough

Researchers at the California Institute of Technology are developing a reactor that can convert carbon dioxide and water into fuel using solar energy, and the whole...


MIT Breakthrough: Thermo-Chemical Solar Power

MIT researchers are hopeful of capturing and releasing solar energy with the help of thermo-chemical technology. Scientists were already working on this technology in...


Breakthrough in Capturing Lost Energy in Solar Cells

Material chemists at the University of Texas at Austin and the University of Minnesota say that according to their research, the efficiency of a solar...


Spotlight: GE places solar bets on thin-film cells

General Electric, which has long made solar panels using traditional silicon, is converting to thin-film cells, using the same material as industry cost...


Google touts solar thermal breakthrough

Google’s high-profile plan to develop renewable energy that is cheaper than coal could soon bear fruit, after the search giant revealed it has developed a...


Breakthrough: IBM Makes a Solar Cell Out of Inexpensive “Earth Abundant” Materials

And It’s Pretty Efficient Too! IBM researchers have recently published a paper in the journal Advanced Materials about a very promising breakthrough in solar technology. How is...


Lockheed Martin-Built Instruments Ready for Launch on NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory

Two state-of-the art solar instruments built at the Solar and Astrophysics Laboratory of the Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) Advanced Technology Center (ATC) in Palo Alto...


Solar farm is producing energy

SunEdison’s photovoltaic solar farm just outside Lexington is now online and providing 4 megawatts of generation capacity to Charlotte-based Duke Energy, which is buying the...


Joule Biotechnologies

Joule Biotechnologies Unveils Liquid Fuel From Solar Power

First came corn and cane as biomass for renewable fuel, then cellulosic materials and algae. Now Joule Biotechnologies Inc. has emerged from stealth mode with...




JN Green Loan

Jamaica National ‘Green” Help Loan

JN Green Loan The Jamaica National Building Society (JNBS) this week announced the launch of a new loan programme under which householders will be able to...





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