Using its proprietary crystalline technology, called String Ribbon, the company develops and manufactures solar power cells and panels.
The scientists examined the effects of the radiation on mitochondrial DNA - the tiny energy factories which power cells.
Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are developing new long-lasting power cells that they say will be capable of charging to full power in a matter of seconds.
The gallium cells can provide almost 50 percent more power than silicon photovoltaic cells, but are nearly twice as expensive.
From which you can make biogas (methane) which can be used to power those fuel cells.
Sikorsky helicopters and International Fuel Cells power systems.
This country has an estimated 220 gigawatts of what you might call amateur power: emergency generators, industrial fuel cells and other user-owned power plants, compared with 1, 000 or so gigawatts of central station capacity.
But that power tool contains only 10 battery cells versus the 200 larger ones needed to power a car like the Volt.
Another senior executive in charge of power-generation fuel cells has a background in American utilities.
As those flights become longer and higher, the aircraft will start to draw power from its solar cells.
They've been able to coax enough power out of their cells, but the cells still degrade too fast and don't work well in freezing weather.
Say, LED bulbs, combined heat and power boilers, fuel cells, whatever.
In a flurry of announcements, Japanese manufacturers including Toshiba and NEC said they'd soon be rolling out miniature fuel cells to power mobile phones, music players and laptops.
Two other forces are helping fuel cells in power generation.
It's a layer of carbon nanotubes on silicon, and it might just be instrumental to getting a lot more power out of solar cells than we're used to.
What emerged was a wish list from customers that included cleaner ways to burn coal and more efficient wastewater treatment systems, as well as nuclear power and hydrogen fuel cells.
There was a mixed showing for German solar power companies Q-Cells and Solon, after both alluded to difficulties in trading in the first quarter and for the rest of the year.
Suntech Power commercially manufactures PV cells utilizing Pluto technology.
In January GM (nyse: GM - news - people ) contracted to sell the Army a fleet of trucks powered by next-generation power plants like fuel cells and diesel-electric hybrids.
But could it finally move fuel cells for stationary power generation a big step forward?
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Such intense lasers are better suited to power-beaming because the cells that collect the laser light can be smaller.
Another interesting play is FuelCell Energy (nasdaq: FCEL - news - people ), whose main business is fuel cells for stationary power generation, such as in a factory or large building.
While the United States was once a pioneer in developing and commercializing clean energy technologies, from solar cells to nuclear power, we now lag behind our competitors in Asia and Europe in the production of virtually all clean technologies.
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Newly designed Australian army vests will be equipped with paper-thin, flexible and lightweight solar-cells with very high power-to-weight ratios.
Energy deregulation in Europe and America allows new firms to set up cheap, efficient power sources (such as fuel cells) close to the consumer.
When a car is sitting in the garage, its fuel cells could supply the power needed to run a house--maybe even sell electricity back to the grid.
ReliOn, a fuel-cell manufacturer based in Spokane, WA and focused on emergency-generation applications, reported that one of its customers hit by Hurricane Irene had 56 cell towers with fuel cells installed for backup power.
If, on the one hand, you've got biofuels which represent only a half a percent conversion of sunlight, and let's say you've got photovoltaic cells and concentrated solar power systems, the efficiency of solar in terms of pure conversion is 50-100 times greater.
Photoelectric cells and lasers, nuclear power and fiber optics, space travel, and even semiconductors all trace back to his theories.
SunPower manufactures and distributes silicon-based solar cells and also produces solar power products for installation on residential and commercial units.
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