Jul
7
Direct Solar Hydrogen Production Panel Invented
July 7, 2015 | 1 Comment
Scientists at Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EFPL) in Switzerland have developed a cost-effective new method for converting and storing solar energy by making free hydrogen fuel. The team thinks their liquid-liquid method can be scaled up on a commercial level. The study paper has been published in Nature Communications. Storing solar energy as hydrogen […]
Mar
12
A Lot of Good LED and Solar Cell News
March 12, 2014 | Leave a Comment
Three research papers with LED and/or for solar cell progress all published in the past few days. The three are based on one material. MIT, TU Vienna, and University of Washington (UW) researchers have all made recent advances on PV cells, LEDs, and other optoelectronic components made possible using an ultrathin tungsten diselenide film. There […]