A silicon chip mimics the function of the biological cochlea
Rahul Sarpeshkar, associate professor of electrical engineering and computer science at MIT, and his graduate student, Soumya-jit Mandal, designed the chip to mimic the inner ear more...Wind Energy Market Top Ratings
Leading companies in the U.S. wind energy market maintained their top positions in several categories more...Thin-film and Mono-Crystalline Solar Modules Manufacture Technologies in ASP
Advanced Solar Photonics (ASP) has increased the number of products that it plans to offer from its previously announced SolarFab project in Lake Mary, Florida. Products will now include not only thin film, but also mono-crystalline solar photovoltaic modules more...A 4.7MW Rooftop PV facility in Italy
Trina Solar Limited announced the completion of a 4.7-megawatt (MW) solar photovoltaic (PV) facility developed by ErgyCapital at the end of February, 2009. Trina Solar was the sole supplier of PV modules that were used on the rooftop installation by ErgyCapital. The project, the largest rooftop PV installation in Italy more...202-MW Wind Power Project by Iberdrola in Texas
Texas leads the nation in producing wind power, now newest 202-megawatt (MW) Penascal Wind Power Project developed by Iberdrola Renewables more...Solar-Powered City to Be Built
Developer Kitson & Partners announced a landmark agreement with Florida Power & Light (FPL) to build 75-megawatt solar PV power plants at Babcock Ranch, Florida, effectively making it the world's first city powered by solar energy. more...Investments in Arizona Solar Institute fuses Knowledge and Industry
Science Foundation Arizona has announced solar US $4 million investments and the opening of the Solar Technology Institute (STI) to advance Arizona's renewable energy leadership. more...Ukrainian-Japanese collaboration in Power Industry
On April 21, 2009 Prime minister of Ukraine Julia Timoshenko conducted the conference on the questions of Ukrainian-Japanese collaboration in industry of technologies and met with leaders of the Japanese corporations of «Soumitomo» and «Mitsubishi heavy industries», more...Excitons work in silicon nanowires
In all the approaches the McGehee lab from StanfordUniversity has taken, the idea has been that when sunlight strikes an absorbing material in a solar panel, it will release a pair of electrically charged particles collectively known as an “exciton. more...In The News
"Thin film diffractive holographic solar concentrators"One of serious problems, which appears before the developers of sun elements, is a creation of high effective thin film devices of concentration of optical radiation
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