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Trends in Green Supply Chain Efficiency Technology
Supply & Demand Chain Executive magazine has announced the recipients its 2012 Green Supply Chain Awards. This year’s fifth annual awards recognize 57 companies of all sizes that are using innovative practices to drive supply chain sustainability. “Leading companies recognize that initiating sustainable practices in their supply chain processes is key towards driving their competitive [...]
MIT Engineers Develop Solar Funneling Technology
MIT engineers have created a model which solar energy can be more efficient and effective by using a funnel before it’s captured. This new concept places highly specialized materials under “elastic strain,” which allows the materials to first capture the sunlight and then collect it at the center. Ju Li, a professor at MIT and [...]
Edwards Air Force Base Tests HCPV Technology
The capabilities of high-concentration photovoltaics technology will be tested at Edwards Air Force Base in California, where a 200-kilowatt solar power field of this type is going to rise. The solar field will include a dozen commercial-scale dual-axis HCPV units manufactured by Semprius, Inc. of Durham North Carolina. The HCPV units will have the ability [...]
Rust + Sun = Hydrogen?
Hydrogen—whether or not you know it—is the fuel of today, and more so the fuel of tomorrow. It’s the explosive component behind the hydrocarbons in coal, gas and diesel, but when you free carbon from hydrogen and use it as a fuel you don’t get the pollution from hydrocarbons. But the problem is is that [...]
Nanosolar Completes Largest Nano PV Project To Date
Nanosolar just announced that it’s completed it’s largest project to date, a 10.63 megawatt project in Alfarrasi, a town in Valencia, Spain. The U.S.-based PV manufacturer is among the first to commercialize printable photovoltaics (PV) and this is among the largest, if not the largest nanoparticle-printed array in the world. The project in Spain was [...]
The Solar Pocket Factory Concept Launched on KickStarter
A KickStarter project shows how solar panel factories could become a feature of any neighborhood, producing cheap solar panels for an age when these would become truly mass consumption items. Devised by inventors Shayne Frayne and Alex Hornstein, the duo has come up with a concept called “solar pocket factory” to produce cheaper small-scale panels [...]
Cheaper Gallium Nitride: Gamechanger for High Performance Solar?
Improvements in how Bulk Gallium Nitride, a semiconductor substrate, is manufactured could bring its cost down enough for it to realistically compete with silicon in the electronics world and some in solar. That’s what a recently released report from Lux Research found. “Wide-band-gap semiconductor materials such as gallium nitride offer far higher performance than traditional [...]
V3 Solar’s Super Efficient Cone Shaped Solar Modules
There are several aspects of current solar technologies that hold back their efficiency. For one, panels are usually mounted in a fixed position, meaning they are not always directly facing the sun. Some mounting systems use advanced tracking systems adjust their positions with the angle of the sun, but such units tend to be expensive. [...]
Does Google Have A “Breakthrough Biofuel” Up It’s Sleeve?
Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) has been successfully testing a breakthrough biofuel at its headquarters in Mountain View, Calif. The biofuel, made by California-based Cool Planet Energy Systems, is produced using a “carbon negative” process that actually removes carbon from the atmosphere during the course of production. “Innovations in alternative fuels will be key in addressing growing [...]