1 Self-Assembling Photovoltaic Tech From MIT
telomerewhythere writes "Michael Strano and his team at MIT have made a self-assembling and indefinitely repairable photovoltaic cell based on the principle found in chloroplasts inside plant cells. 'The system Strano's team produced is made up of seven different compounds, including the carbon nanotubes, the phospholipids, and the proteins that make up the reaction centers, which under the ... Source: Slashdot
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2 DuPont Announces First Commercial Adoption Of New DuPont PV8600 Encapsulant Material
DuPont Photovoltaic Solutions (DPVS) announces commercialization of a new modified ionomer encapsulant sheet for use in photovoltaic module manufacturing. Source: ChemicalOnline
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3 New plant-mimicking photovoltaic cells that self-repair sun damage
London, Sept 6 : MIT scientists have developed new self-assembling photovoltaic technology that can not only mimic a plant's ability to convert sunlight into energy but also repair itself from damage that occurs due to constant sunlight. Source: New Kerala
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4 Green energy demand drives photovoltaic sector
The growing demand for green energy will cause a surge in the photovoltaic sector, says Frost & Sullivan . Political pressure is rising to reduce carbon emissions and promote use of renewable energy sources worldwide, auguring well for photovoltaic materials suppliers. Source: EE Times Asia
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5 Bacterial light-harvesting proteins make a regenerating solar cell
Photovoltaic cells are becoming cheaper and more efficient each year, but there are still some questions regarding their long-term sustainability. Most technologies involve the use of elements that may be limited in supply, toxic, expensive, and difficult to recycle, which may ultimately limit our ability to produce them on the sorts of scales that a wholly renewable energy economy would require ... Source: Ars Technica
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6 Three-Quarters Of New Solar Systems Worldwide Were Installed In The EU In 2009
In 2009, newly installed photovoltaic (PV) cells world-wide produced a peak amount of electricity estimated at 7.4 GW, out of which 5.8 GW was located in Europe. Similarly to previous years, this shows the EU's dominance, where more than three quarters of the world's new solar systems were installed. By the end of 2009, Europe's cumulative installed PV electricity generation capacity (existing ... Source: redOrbit
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7 BT Imaging Introduces Solar Photovoltaic Industry's First Multi-Function Inspection and Analysis System for Solar Cell ...
LIS-P2 Platform Replaces Several Tools With One Tool; Provides Additional Capability Source: Marketwire
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8 Self-Assembling Photovoltaic Technology Repairs Itself
Plants are good at doing what scientists and engineers have been struggling to do for decades: converting sunlight into stored energy, and doing so reliably day after day, year after year. Now some MIT scientists have succeeded in mimicking a key aspect of that process. Source: PhotonicsOnline
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9 Self-repairing solar cells could also fix our energy dependency
It doesn't take much for a photovoltaic cell to not work quite as well as it used to. Sure, a big hail storm or the like will do a number on your megabucks rooftop installation, but the sun itself, the very thing those cells are designed to capture, gradually damages their internals, reducing efficiency. The fix, according to a team at MIT , is self-assembling (and therefore self-repairing ... Source: Engadget
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10 Three-quarters of new solar systems worldwide were installed in the EU in 2009
( European Commission Joint Research Centre ) In 2009, newly installed photovoltaic (PV) cells world-wide produced a peak amount of electricity estimated at 7.4 GW, out of which 5.8 GW was located in Europe. Similarly to previous years, this shows the EU's dominance, where more than three quarters of the world's new solar systems were installed. By the end of 2009, Europe's cumulative installed ... Source: EurekAlert!
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