Silicon solar cells are not the only type of solar cells available to capture the sunlight, we also have dye-sensitized solar cells also called Grätzel cells after their inventor, Michael Grätzel. I’m glad to announce you that a team of researchers from China and Switzerland have reported the highest efficiency for dye-sensitized solar cells which [...]

Although many scientists regarded this as almost impossible, a team of researchers from the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have developed a new anti-reflective coating which will allow solar panels to absorb light from the entire solar spectrum, and to capture almost all the amount of sunlight from almost any angle. This is a major breakthrough which [...]

A MIT researcher has demonstrated a reaction which resembles the photosynthesis process that plants make each day which means that from now on solar power could be deployed at world scale. Using catalysts developed by the chemist, he showed a video where oxygen was generated from water, just like plants do it in photosynthesis.
“I’m going [...]

Remember how everyone tells you that your PC, Mac or laptop is not environmentally-friendly? Well, this thing could change thanks to the LawnPC. This could become the PC of the future as it’s solar-powered and wireless. The LawnPC was designed by David Veldkamp with greenness and efficiency in his mind, however, the design is also [...]

Here is the coolest house of them all! Why? Because it’s the Walking House! This house of the future was designed by Copenhagen-based art collective N55 in collaboration with engineers from Massachusetts, U.S. The designers dubbed this house as the “ultimate property” because it’s the perfect solution against floods as it will walk away from [...]

Good news for solar power as the University of New South Wales ARC Photovoltaic Centre of Excellence has announced that they managed to develop a silicon solar cell which has an efficiency of 25 percent. It’s a new world record, however, the previous record was also held by the UNSW ARC Photovoltaic Centre of Excellence [...]

A major double breakthrough which could lead to significantly improved solar cells has been achieved by a team of chemists from the Ohio State University. The researchers managed to develop a new material which will absorb all the energy coming from the sun beams, and in the same time it can generate and capture electrons [...]

Do you remember what we always about renewable energies? Something like these aren’t so advanced or cost-effective and that there is little chance to entirely replace fossil fuels? Well, this could change thanks to a company called Solar Botanic which plans to harvest solar and wind energy thanks to artificial trees based on nanotechnology.
As nanotechnology [...]

Researchers at a startup company called Solyndra have designed a new way of deploying solar panels which is cheaper and more efficient than regular solar panels. The new technique consists of cylindrical solar cells which are made of thin-film semiconductor material that is deposited on a glass tube.

The thin-film semiconductor material is made of copper, [...]

As you know, in the future we will use only renewable energies and for the moment solar and wind power are the most advanced technologies that we have. I am aware by the fact that there are other clean ways to generate power like wave and tidal, but for the moment there are only a [...]