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Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing is planning to invest in the island's largest producer of solar cells

Taiwan chip giant TSMC to enter solar energy

Technology / Energy

created Dec 10, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Chip giant Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. is planning its first foray into solar energy with an investment in the island's largest producer of solar cells, a spokesman said Thursday.


Aircraft dubbed 'Solar Impulse', HB-SIA prototype, flies for the first time

Pioneering solar-powered plane makes airborne hop

Technology / Energy

created Dec 03, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

The prototype of Solar Impulse, a pioneering Swiss bid to fly around the world on solar power, briefly took off for the first time on Thursday but under battery power, the organisers said.


Innovation puts next-generation solar cells on the horizon

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Dec 01, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (30) | comments 12

In a world first, a Monash University-led international research team has developed an innovative way to boost the output of the next generation of solar cells.


Solar pannels whose energy helps pump water into a water tower in the village of Safo Nassarawa near Maradi in Niger

World Bank musters $5.5 billion for solar projects

Technology / Energy

created Dec 09, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

The World Bank announced Wednesday 5.5 billion dollars would be invested in solar energy projects in five countries of the Middle East and North Africa in a bid to combat climate change.


Elusive 'hot' electrons captured in ultra-thin solar cells

Physics / General Physics

created Dec 11, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (12) | comments 3

Boston College researchers have observed the "hot electron" effect in a solar cell for the first time and successfully harvested the elusive charges using ultra-thin solar cells, opening a potential avenue to improved solar ...


Solar power coming to a store near you (AP)

Solar power coming to a store near you

Technology / Energy

created Dec 10, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (30) | comments 28

(AP) -- Solar technology is going where it has never gone before: onto the shelves at retail stores where do-it-yourselfers can now plunk a panel into a shopping cart and bring it home to install.


NJIT receives funding to improve Big Bear Telescope, study solar energy

NJIT receives funding to improve Big Bear Telescope, study solar energy

Space & Earth / Astronomy

created Nov 20, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (6) | comments 1

NJIT researchers are at work on many scientific and technological frontiers. The National Science Foundation has recently provided support that totals nearly $4.3 million for the diverse efforts of the following ...


Checklist for going solar

Technology / Energy

created Dec 04, 2009 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (3) | comments 1

With the sun setting before 5 p.m., solar power may be the last thing on your mind these days. But declining panel prices ans a federal tax credit make now a good time to at least investigate whether solar power might make ...


Highlight: Solar - Bridging the gap

Physics / General Physics

created Dec 10, 2009 | popularity 2 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Titanium dioxide, the same inexpensive white pigment that protects us from sunburns, can be converted into a material that absorbs sunlight and could greatly increase the efficiency of solar energy cells.


Weir in space and dimmed sun creates 200-million-mile-long lab bench for turbulence research

Weir in space and dimmed sun creates 200-million-mile-long lab bench for turbulence research

Physics / General Physics

created Dec 11, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Physicists working in space plasmas have made clever use of the Ulysses spacecraft and the solar minimum to create a massive virtual lab bench to provide a unique test for the science underlying turbulent ...



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