by Eric Jussaume | Nov 23, 2016 | News
By Katie Fehrenbacher Photograph by Fortune/Katie Fehrenbacher NOVEMBER 17, 2016, 11:28 AM EST On the sleepy Hawaiian island of Kauai sits a first of its kind solar and battery project. The rain pauses, the clouds part, and the sun finally shines down on a sprawling...
by Eric Jussaume | Nov 22, 2016 | News
A new analysis suggests that we continue to move into a world in which it makes more economic sense to draw electricity from the sun or the winds, rather than from fossil fuels. The report, from Bloomberg New Energy Finance, examined the “levelized cost of...
by Eric Jussaume | Nov 21, 2016 | News
by Lacy Cooke One of the coolest guys in science, Bill Nye is turning his attention to new solar technology that could cut the cost of panels by 60 percent. Rayton Solar has devised a system that cuts Float Zone Silicon, a crucial component of solar panels, with a...
by Eric Jussaume | Nov 18, 2016 | News
While silicon has long been the standard for commercial solar cells, new research from the Institute of Photonic Sciences (ICFO) in Spain has shown that graphene could prove far more efficient when it comes to transforming light into energy. The study found that...
by Eric Jussaume | Nov 14, 2016 | News
Integrating solar panels into windows and walls seems to be the obvious next step for the technology, but what about all of the light indoors? What if there could be a way to harness, or recycle, that light energy along with the light from the sun? Researchers at...
