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In Solar Cells, Tweaking the Tiniest of Parts Yields Big Jump in Efficiency
By tweaking the smallest of parts, a trio of University at Buffalo engineers is hoping to dramatically increase the amount of sunlight that solar cells convert into electricity. With military colleagues, the UB researchers have shown that embedding charged...
Belarus, Russia to Finalize Deal on Nuclear Power Plant Construction
The Russian Federation’s ambassador to Belarus Alekhandr Surikov told reporters in the Belarusian capital Minsk that a draft Belarusian-Russian interstate agreement on the construction of a new 2,400 megawatt nuclear power plant for Belarus will be...
First Solar Sells 550-Megawatt Desert Sunlight Solar Farm
First Solar, Inc. has announced completion of the sale of one of the world’s largest photovoltaic (PV) solar power projects – the 550-megawatt (AC) Desert Sunlight Solar Farm near Desert Center, Calif. How People Arrived Here: cambodia solar farms,...
U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon 2011 Set to Begin
The U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon 2011 is taking shape as teams work around the clock to assemble 19 solar homes on the National Mall’s West Potomac Park in Washington, D.C., in time for the 10 a.m. September 23 opening.
Japan Capable of Replacing Nuclear Power with Renewables
Former German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, a leading proponent of Germany phasing out nuclear power, has said that in the wake of Japan’s disastrous 11 March Fukushima nuclear accident that the country can both phase out nuclear power and become a...
Russia’s Lukoil to Establish Solar Energy Plant in Uzbekistan
Russian Lukoil president Vagit Alekperov said that his company intends to develop alternative energy projects in Uzbekistan. During the Soviet era, Uzbekistan was the USSR’s leading center for solar research and in 1965 the Uzbek Academy of Sciences...
Germany Increasing Its Focus on Solar Energy
In the wake of the 11 March nuclear disaster at Tokyo Electric Power Co.’s Fukushima nuclear power complex, the government of German Chancellor Angela Merkel decided to shutter the country’s nuclear power plants, which in turn has increased Berlin’s...
The Toxins in the Innovation Kool-Aid
Two stories in the Business Report section of today’s San Francisco Chronicle provide a useful perspective on why it is that Barack Obama’s mantra about solving the interlinked problems of the current economic crisis and its corollary of devastating...
