Jan
6
Short Term Thinking vs the Big Japanese Photovoltaic Business Gets Bigger
January 6, 2009 | 2 Comments
Yesterday saw the NEC Top 100 Technologies reviewed here and Al Fin kicking in Checkbiotech.org’s Top Bioenergy Companies on his energy blog. Then last night the news out of Japan has it that Toshiba, the huge company we see in electronics like laptop computers and TVs has jumped into utility scale solar photovoltaics. Now don’t […]
Nov
14
An Innovative Take on Managing the Incoming Light
November 14, 2008 | 8 Comments
Solar photovoltaic cells have a big cost barrier to get to widespread adoption. Paired up with difficult weather like hail and wind much of the world remains completely out of bounds. So when something really clever and innovative shows up, its worth a close look. Morgan Solar’s whiz, John Paul Morgan came up with a […]
Oct
23
A New Solar Sensation
October 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment
Ohio State University research leader Professor Malcolm Chisholm at the Department of Chemistry and two noted researchers at the National Taiwan University Department of Chemistry have their new photovoltaic solar material research published by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science. The excitement is about a synthesized electrically conductive plastic combined with metals including […]
Oct
14
What Is That Black Silicon Stuff?
October 14, 2008 | 6 Comments
You’re aware of silicon wafers made into computer chips and solar cells by very high technological skills with huge investments. There has been an enormous payoff in new products with these things appearing in an ever-growing list of products. Those chips are made by etching circuits into silicon’s shiny surface. Black Silicon is another kind […]
Oct
7
The Smallest Solar Cell Goes Flexible
October 7, 2008 | 7 Comments
Sunday saw the journal Nature Materials prepublish on the website the abstract for John Rogers of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and his team’s results in downsizing silicon solar cells with a new method to cut the chip off of the silicon crystal wafer. The Rogers team offers a new way to process conventional […]
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