Wednesday, December 15, 2010

Greenpeace Breathe

Sunday, December 12, 2010

Paul Gipe - How feed-in tariffs fueled the global renewable energy revolution

Paul Gipe is a renewable energy expert, consultant and advocate from California. He was in Edmonton speaking to the City's Task Force on Renewable Energy. The market mechanism is so successful Gipe says feed-in tariffs are responsible for 50% of the wind and 75% of the photo voltaics in the world and has helped cities and countries transform their energy supply.

New equation could advance research in solar cell materials

New Equation Could Advance Research in Solar Cell Materials

ScienceDaily (Oct. 21, 2010) — A groundbreaking new equation developed in part by researchers at the University of Michigan could do for organic semiconductors what the Shockley ideal diode equation did for inorganic semiconductors: help to enable their wider adoption.

Photovoltaic medicine: Miniature solar cells might make chemotherapy less toxic

Photovoltaic Medicine: Miniature Solar Cells Might Make Chemotherapy Less Toxic

ScienceDaily (Oct. 25, 2010) — Micro-scaled photovoltaic devices may one day be used to deliver chemotherapeutic drugs directly to tumors, rendering chemotherapy less toxic to surrounding tissue.

Bringing Sunlight Inside

Mechanical Engineers Create High-tech Solar Panels

May 1, 2007 — Photovoltaic panels have a new design: concentric circles that focus the sun's rays on miniaturized modules. Having the panels automatically sense sunlight and turn towards it also makes these high-tech solar cells more efficient.

Friday, December 10, 2010

Researchers aim to harvest solar energy from pavement to melt ice, power streetlights

Researchers Aim to Harvest Solar Energy from Pavement to Melt Ice, Power Streetlights

ScienceDaily (Nov. 10, 2010) — The heat radiating off roadways has long been a factor in explaining why city temperatures are often considerably warmer than nearby suburban or rural areas. Now a team of engineering researchers from the University of Rhode Island is examining methods of harvesting that solar energy to melt ice, power streetlights, illuminate signs, heat buildings and potentially use it for many other purposes.

Duelling dipoles: In search of a new theory of photosynthetic energy transfer

Duelling Dipoles: In Search of a New Theory of Photosynthetic Energy Transfer

ScienceDaily (Dec. 8, 2010) — Chemists of Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU) in Munich have refuted a basic postulate of Förster theory, which describes energy transfers between pigment molecules, such as those that underlie photosynthesis. A revised version of the theory could have an impact on the design of optical computers and improve the efficiency of solar cells.

New ultra-clean nanowires have great potential in solar cell technology and electronics

New Ultra-Clean Nanowires Have Great Potential in Solar Cell Technology and Electronics

ScienceDaily (Nov. 12, 2010) — New ultra-clean nanowires produced at the Nano-Science Center, University of Copenhagen will have a central role in the development of new high-efficiency solar cells and electronics on a nanometer scale. PhD student Peter Krogstrup, Niels Bohr Institute, in collaboration with a number of well-known researchers and the company SunFlake A/S, is behind the breakthrough. The new findings have recently been published in the journal Nano Letters.

A new twist for nanopillar light collectors

A New Twist for Nanopillar Light Collectors

ScienceDaily (Nov. 17, 2010) — Sunlight represents the cleanest, greenest and far and away most abundant of all energy sources, and yet its potential remains woefully under-utilized. High costs have been a major deterrant to the large-scale applications of silicon-based solar cells. Nanopillars -- densely packed nanoscale arrays of optically active semiconductors -- have shown potential for providing a next generation of relatively cheap and scalable solar cells, but have been hampered by efficiency issues. The nanopillar story, however, has taken a new twist and the future for these materials now looks brighter than ever.

More efficient polymer solar cells fabricated

More Efficient Polymer Solar Cells Fabricated

ScienceDaily (Dec. 4, 2010) — Researchers from Iowa State University and the Ames Laboratory have developed a process capable of producing a thin and uniform light-absorbing layer on textured substrates that improves the efficiency of polymer solar cells by increasing light absorption.

Power Grid of the Future Saves Energy

ScienceDaily (Dec. 7, 2010) — Green energy too comes out of the electricity socket, but to get there it has to travel a long journey -- from wind turbines in the North Sea or regional solar, wind and biogas power plants. On the way to the consumer lots of energy is lost. New electronic components will change things in future.

Wednesday, December 8, 2010

Welcome to SunWorks Energy Solutions' blog!

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