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Turning CO2 into Methane Using Sun Light

Dual catalysts may be the key to efficiently turning carbon dioxide and water vapor into methane and other hydrocarbons using titania nanotubes and solar power, according to Penn State researchers.

5 Mar 2009

Carmanah Introduces Solar LED Lighting for Streets and Parking Lots

Carmanah Technologies Corporation (TSX: CMH) today announced its most powerful solar-powered LED area light to date: the EverGEN™ 1500 lighting system. Designed for street and parking lot lighting applications, the EverGEN 1500 combines the performance of an AC-powered area light with the versatility of an off-grid solar-powered lighting system.

4 Mar 2009

Nanostructure Boosts Efficiency In Energy Transport

Overcoming a critical conductivity challenge to clean energy technologies, Boston College researchers have developed a titanium nanostructure that provides an expanded surface area and demonstrates significantly greater efficiency in the transport of electrons.

3 Mar 2009

Champlain Cable Corporation Creates a New Photovoltaic Wire

Champlain Cable Corporation of Colchester, Vermont has entered the renewable energy industry with two new cable solutions for photovoltaic arrays. The Exar 150PV and the Exar 180PV are both UL rated photovoltaic wires and are the latest products to be released by Champlain Cable.

2 Mar 2009

LOT-Oriel Announces Availability of New Complete IV Curve Measurement System

The first class Solar Simulators and probe stations of Abet Technologies are combined with high quality measurement instruments and the ReRa Tracer software. This has resulted into a complete IV curve measurement system.

From Quantum Design UK and Ireland Ltd 27 Feb 2009

Oerlikon Solar and Tokyo Electron Join Thin Film PV Forces

Tokyo Electron (TEL), a leading global supplier of innovative semiconductor production equipment, has announced a strategic cooperation with Oerlikon Solar, the world's leading supplier of thin film silicon photovoltaic (PV) production equipment.

26 Feb 2009

Ability of Plants to Turn Sunlight into Energy has Been Successfully Mimicked by Scientists

The ability of plants to turn sunlight into energy through photosynthesis has been successfully mimicked by scientists at the University of Southampton to produce a new generation of solar cells.

25 Feb 2009

BTU International Receives Order from New Major Thin Film Solar Customer

BTU International (Nasdaq: BTUI), a leading supplier of advanced thermal processing equipment for the alternative energy and electronics manufacturing markets, announced the receipt of an order from a new, major, thin film solar customer. The order, exceeding two million dollars in value, calls for the delivery of multiple BTU in-line thermal processing systems that will enable high-volume production of thin film solar panels.

24 Feb 2009

Development Enable Cost-Effective Mass Production of TFTs on Flexible Substrates

Optomec announced today that its Aerosol Jet system has been used to fully print Carbon NanoTube (CNT) based Thin Film Transistors (TFT) with operating frequencies over 5 Gigahertz (GHz). The work was conducted in collaboration with the University of Massachusetts and Brewer Science, Inc.

24 Feb 2009

Ikerlan Designs Silicon-Free Photoelectric Module of Easy Incorporation

A team of researchers at the Ikerlan-IK4 technological centre have made a laboratory-scale photoelectric panel which, apart from fulfilling the function of converting solar light into electricity, solves the problems of integratability and availability that current technology presents.

23 Feb 2009

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