It sounds like a plan concocted by a supervillain, if that villain’s dastardly end was to provide cheap, clean power all over the world: launch a set of three-kilometer-wide solar arrays that be
Internet of Things devices are proliferating, making daily tasks more convenient for many people — but that comes at a cost. The United Nations expects the amount of e-waste created globally to reac
Wouldn't it be nice to have a solar panel that's only there when the sun shines on it? That's the idea behind this research project, which uses shape-shifting materials to make a solar panel grow from
The clean energy boffins in their labs are always upping the theoretical limit on how much power you can get out of sunshine, but us plebes actually installing solar cells are stuck with years-old tec
Solar installations are becoming a no-brainer for anyone with a roof in much of the country. But getting an estimate on how much it would cost and how much juice it would generate can be complicated a
Solar energy has just made one step forward: Sharp <a href="http://sharp-world.com/corporate/news/111104.html">announced</a> that it has developed a solar cell boasting the world's highest conversion
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Another small step ahead in solar energy: <a href="http://www.m-kagaku.co.jp/index_en.htm">Mitsubishi Chemical</a>
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The <a href="http://www.jaist.ac.jp/index-e.html">Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology</a> (JAIST) has
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Yesterday, we <a href="http://www.crunchgear.com/2010/12/02/sharp-to-start-mass-producing-efficient-solar-cells/">re
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Back in September, <a href="http://search.beta.techcrunch.com/query.php?y=%2Ftc_eng_id%2Fsearch%2Fv1%2Fquery%2Fsharp%25
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If there's something solar energy as a technology needs, then it's better and cheaper solar cells. And now Sharp has
Japanese companies Gunze and Dai Nippon Printing are each developing new technologies that make it possible to produce low-cost, pigment-sensitized solar cells. Gunze focuses on low-end solar cells th