Credit: HFIPS Recently, a research team has put forward an intriguing approach to enhance the efficiency of solar cells. Their focus on the potential antimony trisulfide (Sb2S3) as a photovoltaic…
Tag: Energy & Green Tech
UK permits ‘world-first’ flight powered by sustainable fuels
Virgin Atlantic will make the world’s first transatlantic flight using entirely sustainable jet fuels. Britain’s aviation regulator announced Monday it has issued Virgin Atlantic with a permit for a “world-first”…
Is nuclear the answer to Australia’s climate crisis?
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain In Australia’s race to net zero emissions, nuclear power has surged back into the news. Opposition leader Peter Dutton argues nuclear is “the only feasible and…
An eco-friendly solar-driven protocol solves water-oil separation
Graphical abstract. Credit: Higher Education Press The discharge of nuclear wastewater from Japan has drawn concern and condemnation from countries around the world. As a result, the issue of marine…
We need to better understand public resistance toward wind turbines and solar cells
Julia Kirch Kirkegaard is Associate Professor at DTU Wind and has helped to establish a multidisciplinary section to better equip engineers to understand the complex reality that meets the technologies…
A surprising finding shows that light can make water evaporate without heat could enable new approaches to desalination
A new study says that Mycobacterium tuberculosis bacteria thrive in dew drops. Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Evaporation is happening all around us all the time, from the sweat cooling our…
Smart irrigation technology covers ‘more crop per drop’
Global Engineering and Research (GEAR) Lab researchers (from left to right) Georgia Van de Zande, Carolyn Sheline, and Fiona Grant pilot a low-cost precision irrigation controller that optimizes system energy…
As photovoltaic market evolved in the last year, prices went up, prices went down
The inflation-adjusted cost benchmark rose in 2023 for utility-scale PV systems but fell for residential PV systems owing to recent trends in network upgrade costs, Inflation Reduction Act manufacturing tax…
A medium-voltage string inverter for photovoltaics
Higher voltage reduces the cable cross section. Credit: Fraunhofer ISE The Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE has developed and successfully commissioned the world’s first medium-voltage string inverter for…
