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The breakthrough material that can turn any surface into a solar cell
University of Queensland researchers have made a breakthrough on next-generation solar technology that could potentially turn any flat surface into a solar generator. The team, led by Professor Lianzhou Wang, have been working on harnessing the power of "quantum dots" - tiny particles that can pass electrons to each other and generate electrical current.
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Semi-transparent solar cells could make greenhouses self-sufficient
Greenhouses and solar panels both need to be placed in areas with a lot of sunlight – so why not combine the two? Semi-transparent solar cells could potentially be built into the glass roof panels of greenhouses, capturing light at wavelengths that plants don’t use anyway. Now, researchers at North…
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How Sustainable is a Solar Powered Website?
Our self-hosted, solar-powered, off-grid website has been running for 15 months now. In this article, we present its energy and uptime data, and calculate the embodied energy of our configuration. Based on these results, we consider the optimal balance between sustainability and server uptime, and outline possible improvements.
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Here comes the sun
Are three multimillionaires about to break Australia’s political deadlock on climate?
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Canada's largest solar farm gets approval for southern Alberta
A Calgary-based company has received regulatory approval to build a massive solar farm, the largest facility of its type in Canada, in southern Alberta. Greengate Power Corp., which has already developed close to 600 MW of wind power projects in Alberta and Ontario, plans to begin construction on its Travers Solar project in 2020. The $500-million project will be located on 1,900 hectares of grazing land near the village of Lomond in Vulcan County. It’s projected to generate 400 MW of electricity, making it one of the world’s largest operating solar energy projects.
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Kenya Installs the First Solar Plant That Transforms Ocean Water Into Drinking Water, and It Could Be the Solution to the Global Lack of Water
The Earth is a watery place. In fact, 71 percent of our planet is covered in water. Despite this, one in nine people do not have access to safe drinking water – that’s around 785 million people.
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Will Elon Musk’s Solar Panels Blanket America? They Probably Should.
This might be where Elon Musk is best able to make a lasting mark.
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70% of Americans Support Solar Mandate on New Homes
CITE Research recently conducted a survey for Vivint Solar and found that 70% of Americans would support a nationwide mandate requiring that solar panels be installed on all newly built homes. The survey was conducted online, and 2,000 U.S. adults age 25 and up participated in the study from June 13 to 16, 2019.
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Punching holes in solar glass makes it more transparent
Researchers in South Korea have developed a new method for making solar windows. Correcting a well-known problem with transparent solar cells producing a reddish hue, these researchers discovered is that you can make a solar window simply by punching extremely small holes—the size of a strand of hair—into crystalline silicon wafers.
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Elon Musk revives his plan to power the United States entirely on solar
Could you meet the United States entirely from solar energy? Sure, claims tech entrepreneur Elon Musk. The Tesla CEO, whose company provides solar panel solutions like the Solar Roof, shared a video via Twitter on Saturday of the electricity-generating tiles taking a beating from a hammer. One fan responded to Musk’s video with a 2011 quote from Bill Gates, who described solar and similar technologies as “cute,” but that the answer is in nuclear power.
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Cornish homes take part in trial to supply clean power to grid
Hundreds of homes and businesses in Cornwall have started selling electricity to their local energy network and the national energy system in a pioneering move. The trial is the first time that traditional energy users – such as homes, hotels and businesses – have acted as suppliers in a microcosm of a full energy system.
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Tiny artificial sunflowers could be used to harvest solar energy
Solar panels could be made from rows of artificial sunflowers, each less than 1 millimetre wide, which automatically bend towards light
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Tesla’s solar-roof sales will grow ‘like kelp on steroids,’ Musk vows
A brand-new Tesla may be coming soon to your neighborhood. But it could be on top of your neighbors’ home, not parked in their driveway. Tesla Inc. TSLA, -1.10% Chief Executive Elon Musk on Friday unveiled the electric-car company’s new solar-paneled roofs and said he expects to be fitting more than 1,000 a week within short order.
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Tesla’s new Solar Roof costs less than a new roof plus solar panels, aims for install rate of 1K per week
Tesla has launched the third iteration of its solar roof tile for residential home use, which it officially detailed in a blog post on Friday and in a call with media. Tesla CEO Elon Musk kicked off the call with some explanatory remarks on the V3 Solar Roof, and then took a number of questions.
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Electric-Car Owners Hard Hit by Massive California Power Shutdown
Tesla's Elon Musk promises battery and solar solutions for the many EV owners who can't charge their cars.
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Solar reaches 80 per cent share of demand in South Australia on Saturday
Solar power continues to set stunning new milestones in the renewable state of South Australia, reaching 80 per cent of total demand on Saturday and accounting for more than 70 per cent of demand over four hours in the middle of the day.
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Pre-built solar homes could make renewable energy almost 50% cheaper
These homes could dramatically reduce the cost of solar energy for homeowners.
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China Is Cleaning Up Its Act on Climate Change
HONG KONG — The busy rush hour in Shenzhen, a new city of some 20 million people in Guangdong Province, is almost silent. Commuters whisper past on electric bikes and scooters or board one of Shenzhen’s fleet of electric buses and taxis, all part of the city’s pool of 90,000 new energy-efficient vehicles. It’s part of what Chinese city officials call “ecological civilization.”
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LA is going to get cheap nighttime power from a massive solar and battery array in the Mojave
LA's next source of energy: a massive solar panel and lithium battery array in the Mojave, operated by 8minute Solar Energy, and capable of supplying 6-7% of the city's energy budget, with four hours of nighttime use. It will cost an eye-poppingly low $0.03.3/kWh, cheaper than natural gas.
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Study says renewable energy power plants will overtake natural-gas plants by 2035
Natural gas is a behemoth in Pennsylvania in terms of production, consumption, and electricity generation. According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, natural gas is the top form of energy consumption in the state, and about 40 percent of electricity in Pennsylvania is generated from natural gas, just behind nuclear energy. Nationwide, natural gas is the single largest share of electricity production.
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