Solar energy could be made cheaper if less land had to be purchased to accommodate solar panels, best achieved if each solar cell could be coaxed to generate more power.
Riverside that has found an ingenious way to make solar energy conversion more efficient. The researchers report in Nano Letters that by combining inorganic semiconductor nanocrystals with organic molecules, they have succeeded in pconvertingphotons in the visible and near-infrared regions of the solar spectrum. he infrared region of the solar
the organics get light out. esides solar energy, the ability to upconvert two low energy photons into one high energy photon has potential applications in biological imaging, data storage and organic light-emitting diodes.
Bardeen emphasized that the research could have wide-ranging implications. he ability to move light energy from one wavelength to another, more useful region, for example,
New cheap and efficient electrode for splitting water March 18th, 2015a new method for making perovskite solar cells March 16th, 2015uc research partnership explores how to best harness solar power March 2nd,
2015uc research partnership explores how to best harness solar power March 2nd, 2015automotive/Transportation Glass coating improves battery performance:
These new phenomena rely on the transport of thermal energy, in contrast to the conventional application of magnetic fields, providing a new,
renewable energy and optoelectronics, are typically expensive and complicated to manufacture. In particular, current chemical synthesis methods use high temperatures and toxic solvents,
and ability to use fuels from renewable sources are several reason why fuel cells such as PEMFC have attracted attention for large market applications,
It's an advance that could have huge implications for everything from photography to solar power.
meaning it can gather a lot of light energy, and then scatters the light over a very large area,
this one very small optical device can receive light energy from all around and yield a surprisingly strong output.
Given the nanoresonator's capacity to absorb large amounts of light energy, the technology also has potential in applications that harvest the sun's energy with high efficiency.
In addition, Yu envisions simply letting the resonator emit that energy in the form of infrared light toward the sky,
and could enable new technologies in light sensing and solar energy conversion, "Yu says s
#Better memory with faster lasers DVDS and Blu-ray disks contain so-called phase-change materials that morph from one atomic state to another after being struck with pulses of laser light, with data"recorded"in those two atomic states.
which you can temporarily store your solar energy. In short, for a solar fuels future we cannot ignore gallium phosphide any longer
Jeffrey Gordon of the Alexandre Yersin Department of Solar energy and Environmental Physics at the Jacob Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research and Prof.
Riverside that has found an ingenious way to make solar energy conversion more efficient. The researchers report in Nano Letters that by combining inorganic semiconductor nanocrystals with organic molecules, they have succeeded in"upconverting"photons in the visible and near-infrared regions of the solar spectrum."
"Besides solar energy, the ability to upconvert two low energy photons into one high energy photon has potential applications in biological imaging, data storage and organic light-emitting diodes.
"The ability to move light energy from one wavelength to another, more useful region, for example, from red to blue, can impact any technology that involves photons as inputs or outputs,
#Engineers develop state-by-state plan to convert US to 100 percent renewable energy (Nanowerk News) One potential way to combat ongoing climate change,
create jobs and stabilize energy prices involves converting the world's entire energy infrastructure to run on clean, renewable energy.
The researchers focused on meeting each state's new power demands using only the renewable energies-wind, solar, geothermal, hydroelectric,
The plan calls for no more than 0. 5 percent of any state's land to be covered in solar panels or wind turbines.
a team of researchers led by Boston College chemist Dunwei Wang achieved'unassisted'water splitting using the abundant rust-like mineral and silicon to capture and store solar energy within hydrogen gas.
'Getting there will contribute to a sustainable future powered by renewable energy.''The team, which included researchers from Boston College, UC Berkeley and China's University of Science and Technology, decided to focus on hematite's surface imperfections,
the central process behind using artificial photosynthesis to capture and store solar energy in hydrogen gas.
#Chemists devise technology that could transform solar energy storage (Nanowerk News) The materials in most of todays residential rooftop solar panels can store energy from the sun for only a few microseconds at a time.
A new technology developed by chemists at UCLA is capable of storing solar energy for up to several weeks an advance that could change the way scientists think about designing solar cells.
The new design is inspired by the way that plants generate energy through photosynthesis. Biology does a very good job of creating energy from sunlight,
To capture energy from sunlight conventional rooftop solar cells use silicon, a fairly expensive material. There is currently a big push to make lower-cost solar cells using plastics, rather than silicon,
though, the UCLA research has proven that inexpensive photovoltaic materials can be organized in a way that greatly improves their ability to retain energy from sunlight t
Shes designed a village-scale desalination system that runs on solar power. Since her system is powered by the sun,
While the mirror by itself would simply reflect all of the incident light energy the absorbing layer selectively filters out a narrow slice of the spectrum,
The device, described in a study published June 23 in Nature Communications("Bifunctional non-noble metal oxide nanoparticle electrocatalysts through lithium-induced conversion for overall water splitting"),could provide a renewable source of clean
renewable energy and optoelectronics, are typically expensive and complicated to manufacture. In particular, current chemical synthesis methods use high temperatures and toxic solvents,
In addition to the exhaust gases, syngas similar gas mixtures from home and industrial waste incineration can also be used for the engineered process
The biochemists at IME use syngas a mixture of carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide and hydrogen as a carbon resource for fermentation.
the syngas transforms either into short-chain alcohols like butanol and hexanol, or into acetone.
At the same time, Fraunhofer further expanded its syngas fermentation system and used it for experiments with the steel and chemicals industry.
#Researchers develop new storage cell for solar energy storage, nighttime conversion (Nanowerk News) A University of Texas at Arlington materials science and engineering team has developed a new energy cell that can store large-scale solar energy even
when it's dark. The innovation is an advancement over the most common solar energy systems that rely on using sunlight immediately as a power source.
Those systems are hindered by not being able to use that solar energy at night or when cloudy conditions exist.
The UT Arlington team developed an all-vanadium photo-electrochemical flow cell that allows for efficient and large-scale solar energy storage even at nighttime.
and use solar power, "said Fuqiang Liu, an assistant professor in the Materials science and engineering Department who led the research team."
"As renewable energy becomes more prevalent, the ability to store solar energy and use it as a renewable alternative provides a sustainable solution to the problem of energy shortage.
It also can effectively harness the inexhaustible energy from the sun."Dong Liu (left), Zi Wei (center) and Fuqiang Liu, an assistant professor in the UT Arlington Materials science and engineering Department.
000 Faculty Early Career development grant awarded to Liu to improve the way solar energy is captured, stored and transmitted for use.
"We have demonstrated simultaneously reversible storage of both solar energy and electrons in the cell, "Dong Liu said."
"Release of the stored electrons under dark conditions continues solar energy storage, thus allowing for unintermittent storage around the clock."
said that the research should allow solar energy storage to be done in a much higher capacity and on a much larger scale."
such as concentrating solar energy and increasing signal speed in optical communications.""Invisibility may seem like magic at first,
We can change the way light waves are being reflected at will and ultimately focus a large area of sunlight onto a solar power tower, like
Nanogold, for example, has incredible optical properties that allow it to absorb light energy very well. Currently only tested in mice,
It's an advance that could have huge implications for everything from photography to solar power.
meaning it can gather a lot of light energy, and then scatters the light over a very large area,
this one very small optical device can receive light energy from all around and yield a surprisingly strong output.
Given the nanoresonator's capacity to absorb large amounts of light energy, the technology also has potential in applications that harvest the sun's energy with high efficiency.
In addition, Yu envisions simply letting the resonator emit that energy in the form of infrared light toward the sky,
and could enable new technologies in light sensing and solar energy conversion, "Yu says s
#Significant development in the understanding of macroscopic quantum behavior For the first time, the wavelike behaviour of a room-temperature polariton condensate has been demonstrated in the laboratory on a macroscopic length scale.
which can be a useful component of biofuels. The work opens the door for scientists to manipulate such organisms to produce compounds useful as fuels or medicines."
This is useful not only for making commercially viable biofuels but also commodities such as pharmaceuticals,"said microbiologist Alex Beliaev, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory,
"In Pacific Northwest National Laboratorys Microbial Cell Dynamics Laboratory, scientists produce microorganisms for biofuels and alternative fuel research.
it's under particular scrutiny for its potential to make biofuels and other high-value products."
a compound that can be processed into biodiesel and higher-value products, such as soaps and detergents.
much as solar panels convert light energy into electrical energy. That voltage was boosted then to a useful level by a DC-DC converter (arxiv. org/abs/1505.06815.
The tests revealed that the efficiency of the cellsconverting solar energy into electricity was 16.9%.%Professor Getautis commented,
Also, both materials have a similar efficiency of converting solar energy into electricity. That means that our semiconductors have similar characteristics to the known alternatives
They mentioned that they are ready to play their part and work together with renewable energy sources like wind and solar power.
QD solar cells have the potential to capture solar energy more efficiently than other cells available commercially today.
#A BATTERY MADE FROM RHUBARB (SORT OF) The next step for renewable energy is to figure out how to store all the power we create.
making waves (and their energy) an easily accessible renewable energy option. The DOE is currently sponsoring the Wave Energy Prize
-generating tiles are gaining a lot of interest in the renewable energy sector. The startup reached its funding goal of £750, 000 (around $1. 2 million) in 60 hours from 535 investors on Crowdcube.
#Solar cells that work on cloudy days just hit a record-breaking 22.1%efficiency There's been plenty of good news about solar power lately-not only are governments around the world using it more and more,
we're now able to harvest the Sun's energy more cheaply and efficiently than ever before.
it shows that black silicon solar cells are now real contenders that could help greatly reduce the cost of solar power in the future.
So if you weren't already excited about the future of solar energy, now is the time to jump on board
made from water, carbon dioxide and renewable energy sources, and they say their pilot plant in Dresden will pump out 160 litres of the of the stuff every day in the coming months to power their Audi a8 cars.
the fuel is produced by converting corn-derived glucose-a renewable source of biomass sugar-into isobutane gas.
now is now capable of producing at least half of their total energy from solar power. According to Reuters, BMW has funded already software
bicycle frames and wind turbines that don crack, and car windshields that could repair themselves after an encounter with an airborne pebble.
which you can temporarily store your solar energy. In short, for a solar fuels future we cannot ignore gallium phosphide any longer."
"It means that consumers can look forward to more competitive pricing in the solar energy sector, and according to Dr Jones, the discovery is shot a-in-the-arm for the whole organic materials sector."
In the future it might be possible to efficiently operate even smaller decentralized units e g. at rural biogas facilities.
Via an effective methanation wind and solar power can be fed into the natural gas grid without any limitations.
For example it might be converted decentrally with the carbon dioxide produced by the about 800000 biogas facilities
#Researchers identify materials to improve biofuel petroleum processing The University of Minnesota has two patents pending on the research
Petrochemical and biofuel refineries use materials called zeolites that act as molecular sieves to sort filter and trap chemical compounds as well as catalyze chemical reactions necessary to produce
The key to improving biofuel and petrochemical processes is to find which zeolites work best.
The first problem researchers tackled is the current multi-step ethanol purification process encountered in biofuel production.
Similar zeolitic materials could also have possible applications for separations in the biofuels and petrochemical industry.
#New technique for producing cheaper solar energy suggested by research A team of experts from the University of Exeter has examined new techniques for generating photovoltaic (PV) energy--or ways in
The global PV market has experienced rapid growth in recent years due to renewable energy targets and CO2 EMISSION controls.
The research by the team from the Environment and Sustainability Institute (ESI) based at the University of Exeter's Penryn Campus in Cornwall is published in the journal Solar energy Materials & Solar cells.
#First public lighting system that runs on solar and wind energy This system developed after four years of research is designed for inter-urban roads motorways urban parks and other public areas.
whereas current wind turbines need more than 2. 5 m/s says Ramon Bargall. This low intensity can provide six nights of electricity without wind
#Revolutionary microbe for biofuel production developed Biofuels pioneer Mascoma LLC and the Department of energy's Bioenergy Science Center have developed a revolutionary strain of yeast that could help significantly accelerate the development of biofuels from nonfood plant matter.
The approach could provide a pathway to eventual expansion of biofuels production beyond the current output limited to ethanol derived from corn.
and Lallemand Biofuels and Distilled Spirits.""The next step for BESC will be to demonstrate and again validate the application of the consolidated bioprocessing approach using thermophilic,
or heat-loving, bacteria to produce biofuels directly from biomass in a single process o
such as the creation of manufactured goods, biofuels and therapeutic drugs. Lead author of the study Professor Rudolf Allemann,
and provide backup for renewable energy sources that produce intermittent output, such as wind and solar power. But Chiang says the technology is suited also well to applications where weight
renewable energy and optoelectronics, are typically expensive and complicated to manufacture. In particular, current chemical synthesis methods use high temperatures and toxic solvents,
#Unlocking fermentation secrets open door to new biofuels"This work advances our fundamental understanding of the complex,
therefore facilitating the development of next-generation biofuels.""Microbial metabolism is a means by which a microbe uses nutrients and generates energy to live
advanced biofuels that can be used directly to fuel your cars,"added Lu, who is affiliated also with the Department of physics
and for guiding strain design and protocol optimization--invaluable for the development of efficient metabolic engineering strategies, expediting the development of advanced biofuels.
#New storage cell for solar energy storage, nighttime conversion The innovation is an advancement over the most common solar energy systems that rely on using sunlight immediately as a power source.
Those systems are hindered by not being able to use that solar energy at night or when cloudy conditions exist.
The UT Arlington team developed an all-vanadium photo-electrochemical flow cell that allows for efficient and large-scale solar energy storage even at nighttime.
and use solar power, "said Fuqiang Liu, an assistant professor in the Materials science and engineering Department who led the research team."
"As renewable energy becomes more prevalent, the ability to store solar energy and use it as a renewable alternative provides a sustainable solution to the problem of energy shortage.
It also can effectively harness the inexhaustible energy from the sun."The work is a product of the 2013 National Science Foundation $400,
000 Faculty Early Career development grant awarded to Liu to improve the way solar energy is captured, stored and transmitted for use.
"We have demonstrated simultaneously reversible storage of both solar energy and electrons in the cell, "Dong Liu said."
"Release of the stored electrons under dark conditions continues solar energy storage, thus allowing for unintermittent storage around the clock."
said that the research should allow solar energy storage to be done in a much higher capacity and on a much larger scale."
It's an advance that could have huge implications for everything from photography to solar power.
meaning it can gather a lot of light energy, and then scatters the light over a very large area,
this one very small optical device can receive light energy from all around and yield a surprisingly strong output.
Given the nanoresonator's capacity to absorb large amounts of light energy, the technology also has potential in applications that harvest the sun's energy with high efficiency.
In addition, Yu envisions simply letting the resonator emit that energy in the form of infrared light toward the sky,
and could enable new technologies in light sensing and solar energy conversion, "Yu says s
#Better memory with faster lasers By studying the effect of femtosecond laser pulses on the types of materials used to make DVDS,
"The network of silver nanowires is so fine that almost no light for solar energy conversion is lost in the cell due to the shadow,
The BAT has the potential to bring affordable wind energy to these communities and industries. The first model will provide enough electricity for a small community,
The BAT has the potential to bring affordable wind energy to these communities and industries. The first model will provide enough electricity for a small community,
The BAT has the potential to bring affordable wind energy to these communities and industries. The first model will provide enough electricity for a small community,
NSF SBIR program director. his technology has the potential to avoid many of the key challenges facing traditional wind turbines. i
Software developed by Fraunhofer researchers will ensure an optimum use of the available wind energy at any time.
it is critical that the available wind energy is used in the best possible way. In order to calculate the optimal sailing route, researchers from Fraunhofer Center for Maritime Logistics and Services CML, a division of Fraunhofer Institute for Material Flow and Logistics IML
This combination is a real winner considering that the battery is designed mostly for use in hybrid electric vehicles and energy storage for renewable energy sources.
so it can be integrated it into ultra-small renewable energy devices, such as solar cells, data storage hardware and advancing quantum computing. uow195685 o one in the scientific community believed silicene paper could be made
These new phenomena rely on the transport of thermal energy, in contrast to the conventional application of magnetic fields, providing a new,
While biofuels have proven to be an effective, renewable, low-carbon alternative to gasoline and diesel, jet fuels pose unique challenges.
Biofuels synthesized from the sugars in plant biomass help mitigate climate change. However jet fuels have stringent requirements that must be met. et fuels must be oxygen-free,
Ours is the first process to generate true drop in aviation biofuels. Scown cites the Intergovernmental panel on climate change (IPCC) on the importance of drop in aviation biofuels. n a 2014 report
the IPCC pointed out that drop in biofuels are the only viable alternative to conventional jet fuels,
she says. f we want to reduce our dependence on petroleum, air travel is going to require renewable liquid fuels
#UCLA chemists devise technology that could transform solar energy storage The materials in most of today residential rooftop solar panels can store energy from the sun for only a few microseconds at a time.
A new technology developed by chemists at UCLA is capable of storing solar energy for up to several weeks an advance that could change the way scientists think about designing solar cells.
UCLA Chemistrythe new design is inspired by the way that plants generate energy through photosynthesis. iology does a very good job of creating energy from sunlight,
and keeping positive and negative charges separated, Tolbert said. hat separation is the key to making the process so efficient. o capture energy from sunlight, conventional rooftop solar cells use silicon, a fairly expensive material.
and provide backup for renewable energy sources that produce intermittent output, such as wind and solar power. But Chiang says the technology is suited also well to applications where weight
and release it at the exact timing desired would be a boon for the field of renewable energy.
they were determined to craft a technology that relied on solar power noble attempt that ultimately failed because solar power,
Eventually they settled on a thermal energy storage system that uses a phase-change material to store energy in the form of ice.
and the battery circulates that thermal energy into a heat exchanger to keep milk chilled over the course of the day.
The scheme aims to push renewable energy in the UK towards 15%of total energy by 2020.
Tesla wall-mounted Powerwall batteries are designed to store up to 10kw hours of wind or solar energy;
Eco-entrepreneur Dale Vince, chair of the renewable energy firm Ecotricity, said the home battery market remained undeveloped until now
The missing link Energy storage has been described as the missing link of solar energy adoption. A report from Deutsche Bank this year said solar energy storage would be cheap enough to be deployed on a large scale within five years as a result of a yearly cost reduction of 20%to 30%in the price of lithium-ion
batteries s
#At the limit of Moore's law: scientists develop molecule-sized transistors Scientists have created a transistor made up of a single molecule.
all of which will contain about 30 percent biofuel. The animal-based propellent is produced by California-based Altair Fuels.
Today, United will announce a $30 million investment in Fulcrum Bioenergy, one of the largest makers of aviation biofuels.
Globally, airlines have been looking at biofuel use for some time, but this marks the biggest ever investment in alternative fuels by a major commercial airline, reports The New york times. Eventually, United plans to integrate biofuels into its entire fleet.
Typical fossil fuels used in aviation are formed from the organic remains of dead plants and animals that have been buried deep within the Earth.
#Scientists Invented Bionic Leaf to Convert Solar energy into Liquid fuel Aided by a new technique, a team of researchers has found a way of converting solar energy into liquid fuel.
Presently, photovoltaic cells are used to convert solar energy into hydrogen, which is stored then in fuel cells for future use.
Researcher Pamela Silver stated his is a proof of concept that you can have a way of harvesting solar energy and storing it in the form of a liquid fuel.
generating 170,000-megawatt hours of solar power annually that will be pumped into the electrical grids that power AWS cloud datacenters in the eastern and central US.
The Virginia solar farm is part of AWS'larger goal to power its global infrastructure footprint with 100 percent renewable energy.
But even with its grand energy commitments, AWS is criticized still highly--mostly by the environmental organization Greenpeace--for its lack of transparency surrounding energy consumption and the way it sources renewable energy.
Amazon has committed not publically to a renewable energy deadline. AWS does say it expects to run its infrastructure on 40 percent renewable power for by the end of 2016.
So far approximately 25 percent of the power consumed within its global datacenters comes from renewable energy sources, according to a recent blog post by AWS cloud chief Jeff Barr.
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