The New York Times reported that California utility Pacific Gas & Electric and solar company SunRun have formed an alliance that will eliminate the upfront cost of installing rooftop solar…
Read MoreThe American Physical Society says it will be pushing congressional leaders to increase research investments in energy-efficiency technologies. The APS says that having a broad portfolio of energy-efficiency options is…
Read MoreGood for SunPower. This 24% efficiency was reached in a large silicon PV wafer, not just a test unit a lab.
Read MoreWhile paging through a recent edition of Newsweek, I ran across two articles I recommend as good reading material. The first is by columnist Ezra Klein, “How much does a…
Read MoreResearchers at Fraunhofer’s Institute for Laser Technology say they are getting excellent results from a bone replacement system that uses a paste of polyactide (PLA) and tricalcium phosphate that is…
Read MoreAsahi Glass Co. says that in July it will be offering a new glass-ceramics substrate targeted at manufacturers of stronger, brighter LEDs (think residential, automotive and electronics, such as 3D…
Read More“Mirrors” is my all time favorite How It’s Made video, with a close second being “Marbles,” shown below. The manufacturing of these glass objects entail complicated processes, documented in these…
Read MoreIn the advanced online edition of Nature Nanotechnology, researchers have developed a new method to produce graphene sheets leading to a diagonal dimension of 30 in. – larger than ever…
Read MoreIn a recent post at ScientificAmerican.com, David Bielo details many of the inefficiencies of photovoltaic cells. Although layered cells composed of various elements can convert more than 40 percent of…
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