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70MW of Solar Coming to Japan
While Japan tries to figure out whether or not it wants to fire up its nuclear reactors again, the solar industry continue to expand in the land of the rising sun. Kyocera Corp, heavy machinery maker IHI Corp and Mizuho Corporate Bank are now teaming up to build Japan’s largest solar project at a cost [...]
In Focus: Space Solar Power
We recently wrote about the feasibility of space solar power, which uses satellites in space to collect solar light and beam it to Earth. One of the advantages of space solar power is that it forgoes the day-night cycle and solar light capture is not hampered by clouds. Two recent deals seem to signal that [...]
Honda Introduces Solar Hydrogen Station
This is the first installation in Japan of a total system to produce, store and dispense hydrogen with ZERO CO2 emissions. The Solar Hydrogen Station is the first of its kind in the country. Nowhere else have efforts been made to work with hydrogen so completely. It uses a system of high pressure water electrolysis [...]
Smart Solar International’s 36% Efficient Triple Junction Solar Cell
Smart Solar International Inc, an offshoot organization from the University of Tokyo is developing their advanced version of a highly efficient solar cell. Fundamentally, their conception is based upon a uniaxial tracking light condensing system, embedded with triple junction compound photovoltaic cells. This triple junction compound cell insinuates a structure in which InGaAs (indium gallium [...]
Toyota Launches Residential Fuel Cell System
A residential fuel cell system is about to enter the market co-developed by Toyota, Kyocera, Osaka Gas, and other Japanese corporations. The corporations, which also include Aisin Seiki Co. and Chofu Seisakusho Co., developed a solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) co-generation system that can power homes. Dubbed “ENE-FARM Type S,” the system has a power [...]
Japan: 1 Year After Fukishima
On the one year anniversary of the earthquake and tsunami, Japan held solemn memorials. The end of Japanese nuclear energy is one of the corollaries of the Fukushima disaster. After the explosion at the Fukushima nuclear power plant on March 11, 2011, Japan closed almost all of their nuclear facilities to conduct safety checks. It [...]
The Solar Techno Park in Yokohama, Japan
In the aftermath of the Fukushima nuclear mishap, Japan has far increased its attention towards alternative energy technologies. As part of it, international steelmaker JFE has set up a solar research facility in Yokohama. Called the Solar Techno Park, the massive solar power project is meant to gain a combined output of 40 to 60 [...]
Seiko Introduces World’s First Solar Powered GPS Watch
Seiko Holding Corp., a Japanese watch company revealed this Monday, the world’s very first solar powered watch named Seiko Astron, which uses global positioning system satellites and can keep time anywhere on the earth. According to Shinji Astron, President of Seiko, this is the second time that Seiko has brought revolution in the watch industry. [...]
Japan’s Solar Apartments Sell Out
It’ll be a year on March 11thsince the devastating earthquake and subsequent tsunami occurred in Japan. The result was billions of dollars in damage to major prefectures and a catastrophic meltdown at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant. A smörgasbord of harmful materials with half-lives in the millions of years have been detected in the [...]