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Tesla and Panasonic will no longer work together on solar cells
Panasonic will stop building solar cells at Tesla's New York Gigafactory 2 plant, the company revealed in a press release. That means Panasonic won't be working on Telsa's latest Solar Roof tiles, though it won't impact their Tesla EV battery partner...
Aqueous Solar Flow Battery is More Efficient
Imagine to be able to recharge battery by just lying them into the sun.Researchers at The Ohio State University have reached a milestone in achieving this goal.Combining a solar cell and a battery...
70 Meter Solar Road Surface Generates Enough Power for a Household
Last year the first road surface with solar cells got installed in a small Dutch town called Krommenie. Fitting to the Netherland the first solar road is a bike lane. The so-called '...
World’s First Solar-Powered Airplane begins Round-the-World Tour
Titled Solar Impulse 2, the airplane is the first one that is entirely built around the idea of the solar cell. What this means is that it runs on sunlight and has no need of petrol or diesel. The...
Federico Capasso: Generating Electricity by Releasing Infrared Light
One of the less appreciated privileges of becoming a tenured professor at Harvard University is that most people consider even your wildest ideas seriously. Federico Capasso, the Robert L. Wallace...
Dark American Cloud Over Taiwan Solar Panels
Taiwan’s solar technology industry, the world’s second largest, faces U.S. government trade sanctions after selling components to Chinese producers that shipped finished modules onward to the United...
When (and Where) Solar LED Lighting Makes Sense
Right now, very few businesses or real estate development companies would think first about using solar panels to run their outdoor lights, but in places where’s no established cabling, solar lights...
Do not Expect Solar Cells In iPhone 6
Back in November of 2013, I explained in detail the rationale for a sapphire screen on Apple (AAPL) iPhone 6 in my column on Forbes titled Sapphire Screen For iPhone 6 Could Be A Real Gem....
The Rise Of Thin-Film Solar Technology
I am a sucker for data visualization graphics, especially if the data involved energy innovation. Needless to say, I was thrilled to discover a dynamic mapping of the geographic history of thin-film...