Nanoshell whispering galleries improve thin solar panels Engineers at Stanford have created photovoltaic nanoshells that harness a peculiar physical phenomenon to better trap light in the solar materials. The results could dramatically improve their efficiency. Visitors to Statuary Hall in the U.S. Capitol Building may have experienced a curious acoustic feature that allows a person to whisper softly at one side of the cavernous, half-domed room and for another on the other side to hear every syllable. Sound is whisked around the semi-circular perimeter of the room almost without flaw.
Mr Solar WHICH KIT DO I NEED? Please contact us at rvkits@mrsolar.com, we are happy to assist. Contact Us Business Hours (ET/PT) Monday-Friday: 8am to 5pmSaturday: Closed Sunday: Closed Solar tracker A backyard installation of passive single–axis trackers in winter midday position, tilted toward the south. The tall poles allow walk-under and use of the ground space underneath the panels for plantings that thrive on protection from the intense midday summer sun at this location A solar tracker is a device that orients a payload toward the sun. Payloads can be photovoltaic panels, reflectors, lenses or other optical devices. In flat-panel photovoltaic (PV) applications, trackers are used to minimize the angle of incidence between the incoming sunlight and a photovoltaic panel.
goalzero Collect power with a solar panel or wall outlet Store New Bladeless Wind Turbine Claimed to be Twice as Efficient as Conventional Designs © Saphon When it comes to the future of wind power, one company thinks it looks a lot different than you would expect, and cheaper and more efficient to boot. Saphon, out of Tunisia, is interested in finding partners to mass-produce and market their unique wind energy device, based on their own Zero Blade technology. "The Zero-Blade Technology is largely inspired from the sailboat and is likely to increase the efficiency of the current wind power conversion devices. The blades are replaced by a sail shaped body while both hub and gearbox are removed."
AM Solar Ask Us about the 30% Solar Tax Credit Our line of products are unique in the RV market. If we can't find some item already made to fit a need, then we'll have it custom built if necessary. Nixon Mission Smartwatch While most high-end GPS sports watches now come with basic notifications, they remain a far cry from a full-fledged smartwatch. Simply put, there’s a big difference in what a Samsung Gear S3 does compared to a Suunto or Garmin wristpiece. The Nixon Mission looks to be an attempt to bridge that gap.
Doctoral student's novel solar reactor may enable clean fuel derived from sunlight 9:18 a.m., April 3, 2012--Producing hydrogen from non-fossil fuel sources is a problem that continues to elude many scientists but University of Delaware’s Erik Koepf thinks he may have discovered a solution. Hydrogen is traditionally made from natural gas. Unfortunately, natural gas is a fossil fuel that releases carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas, when converted to hydrogen. Koepf, a doctoral candidate in mechanical engineering, has designed a novel reactor that employs highly concentrated sunlight and zinc oxide powder to produce solar hydrogen, a truly clean, sustainable fuel with zero emissions.
Oxford Photovoltaic Oxford PV has pioneered the development of perovskite thin-film solar cells, which can be printed directly onto glass to produce a transparent, coloured coating. Once integrated into the glazing units of a building, the technology is capable of providing a significant percentage of the building’s electrical energy requirements directly from solar power. By employing well known and understood printing processes focussed on inexpensive and abundant raw materials, Oxford PV has developed a highly cost-effective technology that it will license to glass manufacturers and processors. Prototypes of its new Meso-Superstructured Solar Cells (MSSC) have already achieved a new conversion efficiency record for the technology of 17% (February 2014).
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Apple Designs a Wind Energy Storage Concept Clean Power Published on January 5th, 2013 | by Nicholas Brown Apple Inc, the well-known manufacturer of phones, desktop, laptop, and tablet computers, has reportedly designed a unique energy storage system for wind energy. Apple energy storage concept. (Credit: U.S Patent and Trademark Office) It has been looking for ways to power its data center, and it realizes the benefits of wind power, such as zero fuel requirements, the opportunity to support the US economy more by buying US-built turbines, zero pollutant and greenhouse gas emissions, and a cost of 9.7 cents per kWh without government subsidies.