Or so suggests new observations of a nearby bright solar type star that is a close analogue to our own.
The system the researchers tested used a type of solar cell known as dye-sensitized solar cells, a lightweight and inexpensive type where the active layer is composed of titanium dioxide, rather than the silicon used in conventional solar cells.
This is step one in making this type of solar panels more successful.
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This month, in the Mojave Desert, a company called BrightSource plans to break ground on a revolutionary new type of solar power plant.
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Rather than creating a new type of solar-powered light, which seems to be where most alternative energy people spend their time, Martin Riddiford and Jim Reeves, London based designers spent the last four years developing GravityLight as an off-line project.
The other, which faces a specialised type of solar cell made of a material called indium gallium arsenide, is sculpted into a structure called a photonic crystal that causes it to emit infra-red radiation selectively at the frequency best absorbed by the cell.
In the first quarter of this year, First Solar outsold all solar panel makers of any type worldwide.
Solyndra, which was founded in 2005, invented a type of cylindrical solar module that was printed with thin-film photovoltaic cells that used little of the then-expensive polysilicon that forms the heart of conventional solar modules.
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The new solar structure consists of n-type nanocones made of zinc oxide surrounded by a p-type semiconductor matrix made of polycrystalline cadmium telluride.
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Meanwhile at the International Space Station, astronauts are installing a new type of 3D-textured solar cell that will soak up 16 sunrises every day.
Not solar and wind, but a relatively obscure type of hydroelectric power that is quickly becoming all the rage: run of river.
We have to decide as a country that we're going to do that -- not import wind turbines, not import solar panels, and not seek somebody else to do the type of skilled retrofitting that's necessary to meet our clean energy goals, to save individuals and businesses money on their heating and cooling bills, as well as creating jobs.
Several breakthroughs sent shock waves through the field of renewable energy this week as Inhabitat reported on a new type of "invisibility cloak" that could supercharge solar cells and researchers at MIT harnessed viruses to improve the efficiency of dye-solar cells by a full third.
Sun Power (SPWRA) which I have yet to re-enter due to the stinging sensation still noticeable when I type in the symbol, but I have remounted some Jinko Solar (JKS) and was a dip buyer of the ETF TAN on Friday at 8:30.
"We are starting to see a whole new type of planetary system, which is unlike anything in our own solar system, " said astronomer William Welsh at San Diego State University, who presented the Kepler findings Wednesday at a meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Austin, Texas.
"We are starting to see a whole new type of planetary system, which is unlike anything in our own solar system, " said William Welsh, an astronomer at San Diego State University, who presented the Kepler findings Wednesday at a meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Austin, Texas.
In other words, right now, some California businesses are installing solar and getting cheaper power simply because they have to buy less of the most expensive type of power from the utility.
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