Sono Motors from Germany showed the serial version of the inexpensive electric minivan Sion. It can be recharged both from a socket and from the Sun: solar panels are integrated into the body, including 456 half-cells. The initial cost is 25.1 thousand euros, although earlier it was about 16 thousand. A 54-kilowatt battery will allow …
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Perovskites, mineral materials composed of calcium titanate, are valuable for making high-efficiency solar cells. While teams of scientists and engineers worldwide have been developing and testing perovskite solar cells in the lab, large-scale outdoor testing of these cells has yet to occur. However, researchers from the University of Rome Tor Vergata, the Greek Mediterranean University …
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The environmental conditions where people can live and work normally are of critical importance. Temperature is the most important of them, since it directly affects the well-being and state of health. This is strongly felt even at home, and in office and industrial buildings, the situation is even tougher, especially in the warm season. Many …
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A research team at Japan’s Tohoku University has developed up to 79 percent transparent solar panels based on monolayer metal and chalcogen semiconductors. “Transparent solar panels are of great interest because they are not as limited in application as traditional opaque solar panels,” the scientists wrote in an article published in Nature Scientific Reports. Despite …
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Researchers in the UK have created devices made from readily available and environmentally friendly photographic materials that can produce pure hydrogen from water within weeks, The Brighter Side reported. A research team led by Dr. Virgil Andrew of St John’s College, Cambridge University, together with scientists from Imperial College London, set out to solve one …
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ETH Zurich scientists have found a new way to produce jet and diesel fuel without harmful emissions. Using this technique, engineers built a “solar tower” in Spain – a station that uses only carbon dioxide, water, and sunlight to generate fuel. Currently, the system converts only 4% of solar energy into jet fuel, but the …
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The British company Clock House Farm has launched a project to grow berries regardless of the season through renewable energy sources, with the project costing £10 million. A fruit and berry producer has invested in technology harnessing heat from the nearby Midway River, Freshplaza.com reported. It took three years to create a system of heat …
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The world leader in producing solar panels – China seriously intends to explore space as a platform for creating and using electricity. To do this, the country is researching the development of orbital solar power plants, the latest of which is the fruit of the labors of employees of Xidian University. Installing solar panels on …
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Anglo-Dutch Shell is considering spending high oil and gas revenues to buy an enormous renewable energy (RES) business or buy back its own shares, CEO Ben van Beurden told the Financial Times. Instead of building a collection of wind or solar farms in the hope of selling the energy it produces, Shell’s approach is to …
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Canada’s Anaergia has teamed up with Japan’s Toyo’s renewable energy (RES) division to build one of Japan’s largest cow dung-to-energy plants. According to Bloomberg, the plant in Kasaoka, a coastal city in southern Japan, will process 250 tons of cow dung per day and generate 1.2 MW of energy from biogas, enough to power 2,200 …
