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Chinese Student Creates Solar Powered Egg House
In an effort to reduce his living expenditure in a city likeBeijing, Daihai Fei, a 24-year-old Chinese student, has started livingin a house that he crafted on a bamboo frame covered with variousinsulating materials topped with a layer of stitched bag. The bags arefilled with sawdust and grass seeds, which the creator waters to enhance [...]
Global PV Competition Creates Increased International Trade Disputes
Critical to the healthy growth of the global solar PV market is a global trade system without restrictive barriers between countries. Buyers of solar products, equipment and materials should be able to purchase from suppliers around the world without tariffs or other restrictions that favor local manufacturers and suppliers of solar products and services should [...]
Student Research Team Creates the Most Efficient Solar Energy Cells Yet
Solar Energy. We use it to power homes, vehicles, aircraft, andsatellites in our never ending quest to find the most efficient means of harnessing the sun’s power. However, where solar energy has hugepotential and continues to prove itself in various fields, the constantproblem of solar cells degrading over time or being less efficientcompared to the [...]
IMEC Creates Solar Cells With 19% Efficiency
Belgian research lab IMEC has unveiled several large-area silicon solar cells with a conversionefficiency of more than 19 percent. The lab realized two types of cellswith silver screen-printed contacts and plated copper contacts.Efficiencies of the cells with screen-printed contacts were up to 19.1percent whereas 19.4 percent efficiency was achieved with copper platedcontacts. IMEC’s record efficiency [...]
Morgan Stanley Creates a Clean Energy Group $MS
Morgan Stanley is opening a new investment banking group focused onclean energy. The move comes after the firm handled ten transactions inthe cleantech space worth $2.9 billion last year, according to Bloomberg New Energy Finance. To date, Morgan Stanley has handled more clean energy initial publicofferings (IPOs) than any other investment bank, and is now [...]
Sign of the Times: DOE Creates ‘Energy Blog’
In an effort to be more transparent andconnected to the American people, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)has created the "Energy Blog." Secretary of Energy, Steven Chu introduced the blog and said it,along with other social media tools such as Facebook, Twitter, Flickr,and YouTube, will allow people to see who the DOE is, what the [...]
Sanyo Creates More Efficient Solar Panel
Sanyo (TYO:6764) recentlyannounced it has developed its most efficient solar panel to-date. The HIT-N230 willhave an efficiency of 20.7% — an efficiency conversion rate onlyrecently surpassed by SunPower’s latest solar panel. The HIT series solar cells contain a singlethin crystalline wafer of silicon surrounded by ultra-thin amorphouslayers of silicon. Sanyo achieves these efficiencies by increasing [...]
Asian Development Bank Creates $9 Billion Solar Power Initiative
The Asian DevelopmentBank (ADB) has announced a massive plan to spur solar power growthin Asia. The ADB has designed the Asia Solar Energy Initiative, will infuseUS$9 billion of capital into the regional market. ADB’s plan is tostimulate the industry quickly and generate 3,000-megawatts of solarpower in the next three years. The Asia Solar Energy Initiative [...]
Tensions Rise as Stimulus Funding Creates More Green Overseas Jobs
Senators Charles E. Schumer (D-NY), Bob Casey (D-PA), Sherrod Brown(D-OH) and Jon Tester (D-MT) requested that stimulus spending on arenewable energy program is discontinued until restrictions areimplemented ensuring that the grantees of federal funding for theseprojects utilize domestic construction materials. The senators havecited the fact that nearly 80 percent of $2.1 billion in wind energyU.S. [...]