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3D Solar Cells Will Be The NextGen Solar Technology

Thursday January 20, 2011
3D Solar Cells Will Be The NextGen Solar Technology

Flat style solar panel doesn’t capture well the sunlight and about 30% of them is reflected. Also, due to the the low efficiency and high cost of installation, not all level of consumer can enjoy this technology yet. However, a company called Solar3D Inc has come up with a brilliant idea with their 3D solar [...]

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IMC Meets Howest: The First Computer That Runs On Solar Cells

Monday November 1, 2010
IMC Meets Howest: The First Computer That Runs On Solar Cells

Designer Jan Leyssens, the one of creator of “IMC Meets Howest” laptop claims that the system to be the first laptop that could be powered up by just two solar cells! It sounds amazing, considering a laptop require a constant 12V stream of electricity to power up the system properly, using only two solar cells [...]

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Eight19 Intros New Flexible And Rollable Organic Solar PV Technology

Monday September 20, 2010
Eight19 Intros New Flexible And Rollable Organic Solar PV Technology

A new company called Eight19 is currently developing a new organic solar PV technology where they are going to build a solar panel using a flexible transparent material that is rollable like a paper. This mean if Eight19 successfully rolled out this new Organic Solar PV technology, the future solar panel is some kind of [...]

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Tiniest Solar Cell Ever Made: 1/5 Human Hair’s Diameter!

Thursday July 29, 2010
Tiniest Solar Cell Ever Made: 1/5 Human Hair’s Diameter!

This is an amazing breakthrough in alternative energy research. People soon can enjoy the very tiny of solar cells that is about one-fifth of human hair’s diameter, or to be exactly about 20 microns thick but still can generate power even in a dim light! Imagine this technology saw by men from the 90′s, this [...]

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MIT Researchers Successfully Print Solar Cell on Paper

Thursday May 6, 2010
MIT Researchers Successfully Print Solar Cell on Paper

The green energy is believed to the the only way to save the world and recover from the global warming. That’s why lots of governments has started to see the urge to do funding on researchers to improve and develop a better solar cell option to convert sun energy into a usable energy. The Scientists [...]

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Sanyo Announces The Highest-level Conversion Efficiency Ultra-thin HIT Solar Cell

Wednesday September 23, 2009
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We’ve been losing the scoop on solar panel news for awhile but now we have been pulled back into the subject by this interesting news from Sanyo. Their recently venture is the ultra-thin HIT solar cell, which believed to be the new breakthrough of solar energy conversion using the highest-level of efficiency. The Ultra-thin solar [...]

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Adesive Roof Solar Panels – Easier Installation

Monday June 16, 2008
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A new solar panel called LUMETA Power-ply 380 arrived with a new promise on faster installation. It’s claimed that the installation process is 2x faster than the classic solar panels. Watch this video and see how fast the installation is: Nice phrase by the way, “Peel and Stick, Click and go…”. 34 minutes installation is [...]

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