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MIT Creates Sun-Free Photovoltaic Power

Oh MIT, we can always count on you to come up with the most clever, little inventions. Just the other day you created goo-powered batteries to replace lithium-ion and now you’ve gone and found a way to make photovoltaic electricity without sunlight!


April 22, 2011
Science

How Do Photovoltaic Solar Cells Work?

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When you think renewable energy, chances are your mind fills with the image of solar photovoltaic cells adorning rooftops. But how do they work? How do the bluey-grey panels convert sunlight into electricity? We’re glad you asked…


June 20, 2010
Science

A Traditional Terracotta Roof That Happens To Harness The Sun

There are plenty of technical hurdles keeping the masses from decking out their roofs with solar panels, but their general ugliness doesn’t help much either. Tegolasolare puts their photovoltaic panels second to the surrounding architecture, not the other way around.


October 29, 2009
Science

Obama $US8b Plan To Modernise The US Power Grid

Oh, Sr. Presidente, you look so goooood in the middle of the largest photovoltaic farm in the country — the 180-acre DeSoto Next Generation Solar Energy centre in Tampa, Florida. Maybe that’s why you want to put solar panels everywhere.