Looking back at the first solar cell that was created 60 years ago
As we noted a couple weeks ago in a guest post from John Perlin, author of Let It Shine: The 6000-Year Story of Solar Energy, we’re coming up on the 60th birthday…
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Intersolar Europe
Intersolar Europe takes place annually at Messe München. It is the world’s largest exhibition for the solar industry and its partners. In 2013, 1,292 international exhibitors and round 50,000 trade…
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Chemineer to Partner on Waste Plastics to Fuel Facility in Bristol, UK
Dayton, Ohio based fluid agitation equipment and systems manufacturer, Chemineer, has been selected as an engineering partner for a waste plastics to fuel facility being developed near Bristol, UK. The…
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VIDEO: BA Plasma Gasification Waste to Jet Fuel Facility Set for Take-off in Essex
Washington D.C. based renewable transport fuel specialist, Solena Fuels has committed to building a facility in Essex, UK to process 575,000 tonnes of residual municipal solid waste into aviation fuel…
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Solar lanterns replace kerosene lamps in Indian urban slums
NEW DELHI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – An Indian social enterprise start-up is helping people living in urban slums to use clean energy by changing their kerosene lamps for solar lanterns…
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Scientists device a way to generate solar energy in the dark
Meet ‘photoswitches’, a breakthrough set of materials that act as their own batteries, absorbing energy and releasing it on demand. The next big thing in solar energy could be microscopic….
