News tagged with photovoltaics
Installed cost of solar photovoltaic systems in the US fell in 2008
Oct 21, 2009 |
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Researchers at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory released a new study on the installed costs of solar photovoltaic (PV) power systems in the U.S., showing that the average cost ...
Panasonic Develops High Energy Lithium-ion Battery Module with High Reliability
Oct 01, 2009 |
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Panasonic Corp. has developed a 1.5 kWh battery module from 18650-type (18 mm in diameter x 65 mm in length) lithium-ion battery cells, which are widely used in laptop computers, to provide energy storage ...
Solar Home Built by Students
Sep 22, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Students from the Boston Architectural College (BAC) and Tufts University have submitted a completely solar-powered home, the Curio House, as New England's entry into the Solar Decathlon competition. ...
Scientists Study How to Stack the Deck for Organic Solar Power
Jul 28, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A new class of economically viable solar power cells--cheap, flexible and easy to make--has come a step closer to reality as a result of recent work at the National Institute of Standards ...
Unzipping Carbon Nanotubes Can Make Graphene Ribbons
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Apr 20, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- By "unzipping" carbon nanotubes, researchers have shown how to make flat graphene ribbons. Graphene, which is a one-atom-thick sheet of carbon that looks like chicken wire, has unique electrical ...
Cheaper materials could be key to low-cost solar cells
Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials
Feb 18, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Unconventional solar cell materials that are as abundant but much less costly than silicon and other semiconductors in use today could substantially reduce the cost of solar photovoltaics, ...
