Using a technology similar to printing solar cells, Xerox’s Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) has developed a process to “print” batteries with far more energy storage capacity than lithium ion batteries.
While renewable energy holds the answers to reducing electricity production related greenhouse gas emissions, a sometimes contentious issue is the space major installations occupy.
Scientists from the University of Michigan have found a new way to capture solar energy without using solar panels and inadvertently discovered a new law of physical motion that has been overlooked for 100 years in the process.
In this episode, Virginia covers legislation to boost South Australia’s solar feed in tariff, demand for fossil fuels outstripping clean energy deployment, rumours of a further reduction to the Solar Credits rebate and the viral effect of solar power.
Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard yesterday announced funding to help build a major solar energy system at the 750 megawatt Kogan Creek coal-fired power station near Chinchilla in Queensland.
It’s been a huge few days for solar panel manufacturer, SunPower Corporation – with an announcement of over USD$1 billion in conditional loan guarantees from the U.S. Department of Energy and the opening of new solar panel manufacturing facility in California.
The UK has missed its 2010 renewable energy target by a large margin, according to a report by the Renewable Energy Foundation (REF).
Natural gas extraction in Australia using hydraulic fracturing, more commonly known as fracking, is generating increasing concern.
California yesterday signed into law a requirement that its electricity suppliers must purchase at least 33 percent of their power from renewable energy sources by 2020.
Japan’s Fukushima nuclear crisis, now designated a level 7 incident – on par with Chernobyl, has spurred Germany on to draft plans to speed up the shift from nuclear power to renewable energy and increased energy efficiency.
