What's the world's best solar panel? A plant. So making solar panels from plants seems like a no-brainer. Today, scientists think they've achieved just that.READ»
Apple's winning more patents all the time, but the latest one is fascinating: It's the first patent for solar powered portable devices that's been awarded to the company. Added to the company's other solar patents, it looks like sunny future for Steve Jobs' firm.READ»
Michael Grätzel may be the closest thing to a living legend in the solar energy world. A professor at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, the Swiss scientist discovered a new type of thin-film solar cell--dubbed the ...READ»
Tobacco: It's good for more than just giving you lung cancer. Scientists at UC Berkeley recently figured out a way to get tobacco plants to grow extractable synthetic photovoltaic and photochemical cells that can theoretically be ...READ»
Circuits are usually made out of toxic chemical-filled silicon, but Professors David Thiel and MadhusudanRao Neeli at Australia's Griffith University think that plastic circuits could be cleaner and greener. The pair's Circuits ...READ»
Passive homes are built to use as little energy as possible, but the future of green housing might be active homes -- houses designed to capture more energy than they use.
The world's first active house, located in Lystrup, ...READ»
Plants miraculously create clean energy using only sunlight and water, and until recently, we've only been able to look on in envy. All our attempts to mimic photosynthesis have been expensive and energy intensive. But a new ...READ»
Sanyo's just announced that it's going to build a new factory in Japan dedicated to solar photovoltaic cell manufacture--the company plans to double its solar cell output to meet rising demand as the world slowly catches on to the ...READ»
Though a number of solar-powered gizmos for recharging your batteries have existed for a while, the entry of a big player like Energizer into the market means that you can take solar-recharging seriously from now on. Due to be ...READ»
