Sentences with phrase «solar cell power»

Investors are also turning to large - scale solar cell power plants.

PG&E has entered into two solar cell power contracts with a combined capacity of 800 megawatts.

In 1993, its solar cells powered Honda to a win at the 1993 World Solar Challenge, an annual solar - powered automobile race that runs 3000 kilometers north to south through Australia's outback, from Darwin to Adelaide.

1993 SunPower all - back contact, high efficiency solar cells power a Honda car to victory in a car race across Australia, beating second place winner by one full day.

A market where they have established themselves is solar cell powered calculators (Eli's is about 20 years old).

Not exact matches

Woven from conductive thread built on microscopic carbon nanotube sheets, this fiber could one day help power human - sized electronic wearables and high - performance solar cells.

Maybe algae will scale up from a few thousand gallons a month to billions of gallons a day, or solar energy can be converted to hydrogen, which will then power the planet's 600 million vehicles via fuel cells; but the market has no way to price the possibility than essential resources will enter permanent depletion declines and that no cheap, scalable substitute exists.

She also recommended purchasing backup generators to keep the lights on and having backup batteries and solar powered chargers available for cell phones.

The center in Maiden, N.C., produces 167 million kilowatt hours, the power equivalent of 17,600 homes for one year, from a 100 - acre solar farm and fuel cell installations provided by Silicon Valley startup Bloom Energy.

They include ECD's low - cost cell for solar power; «rewritable» compact discs and DVDs; an instant - start, regenerative fuel cell currently in development; and a rechargeable nickel - hydride battery for powering hybrid - electric vehicles, which ECD is producing in a joint venture with Texaco.

The balloons themselves are essentially a network of solar - powered, airborne cell towers floating at a height between 60,000 to 90,000 feet, or roughly twice as high as planes fly.

Whereas traditional solar panels are usually mounted on top of existing shingles, the basic goal of Steel Pulse was to make the roof itself solar powered, so it looked like a normal roof, yet generated electricity through embedded solar cells.

Powered by the Ethereum blockchain, The Sun Exchange allows users to lease solar cells to businesses in developing countries who lack affordable electricity, while generating passive income.

There are a number of competing solar cell technologies (c - Si, perovskite, CIGS, etc), but currently with 80 tonnes of silver necessary to generate one GW of solar power, should solar really become ubiquitous, a steady and increasing demand driver for silver is in place.

Above the box are three small solar panels, one facing east, one facing straight up, and the other facing west, that power the lithium power cells hidden behind the screen.

Wholesum Harvest was an early mover on solar power and obtains roughly a third of the electricity it uses from its own photovoltaic cells.

Many have replaced fossil energy sources with bioenergy, such as woodchips, while others focus on solar cells and wind power.

A Massachusetts company that makes silicon wafers for solar power cells has decided not to build its first commercial factory in a Genesee County business park after all.

The electronics giant would produce photovoltaic (PV) cells in the Buffalo factory for use in solar power home installations.

The governor supports bringing in fracked gas from Pennsylvania to power this microgrid, when it's entirely possible that they could do a mix of clean renewables — most notably, geothermal solar and maybe a fuel cell.

In the 113 years between the discovery of the physics behind photovoltaic solar cells and the year 2000, less than 2 gigawatts of solar power capacity was installed around the world.

Artificial wetlands on lower decks would purify wastewater, and the whole city would be studded from top to bottom with solar cells and wind and tidal - power turbines.

Next steps include expanding the use of the technology to different applications, such as solar and fuel cells; and using the battery to power different kinds of electronic devices.

The spacecraft will carry thin - film solar cells on its sail to show that it can also generate power.

Update: Japan has successfully deployed the IKAROS sail, and its solar cells are generating power.

The zinc batteries could be used to power everything from wearable sensors to solar cells and other kinds of electronics.

Many efforts are underway to design atomically thin materials for quantum communication, low - power electronics and solar cells, according to Oliver Monti, a professor in the department and Eads» adviser.

«High efficiency solar power conversion allowed by a novel composite material: A composite thin film developed at INRS improves significantly solar cells» power conversion efficiency..»

Etón's FR160 radio is powered by a solar cell and can pick up AM, FM, and dedicated weather bands.

Solar power fares badly too, in Ausubel's analysis: «The amount of energy generated in [one quart] of the core of a nuclear reactor requires [2.5 acres] of solar cells.&rSolar power fares badly too, in Ausubel's analysis: «The amount of energy generated in [one quart] of the core of a nuclear reactor requires [2.5 acres] of solar cells.&rsolar cells.»

Used as a counter electrode in a dye - sensitized solar cell, the material enabled the cell to convert power with up to 6.8 percent efficiency and more than doubled the performance of an identical cell that instead used an expensive platinum wire counter electrode.

Solar cells provide more than 800 watts of power.

Also equipped with a bit of solar power with battery energy storage to charge up your cell phone and power a light or two.

Solar cells and low - power LEDs, both central planks of a low - carbon energy strategy, could feel the squeeze too.

Because these cells can be made more quickly than bulky solar panels, the company thinks they might be cost - competitive with coal or nuclear power.

Most commercial solar cells use inorganic semiconductors to convert sunlight into a steady stream of electrons that can serve as a power source.

That's probably because, as researchers at Tel Aviv University revealed, nanostructures in the insect's exoskeleton form a kind of solar cell, harvesting light energy that could power the hornet's work.

It had its own power source — solar cells that generated approximately 14 watts of power, and a transponder to receive and retransmit television signals or telephone calls.

If the lead - based particles work inside solar cells as well as they do in the lab, they could boost the solar conversion efficiency from a best of about 32 % today to perhaps as much as 66 %, enough to slash the cost of solar power.

Limiting it could be a key to improving the quality of these solar cells,» said David Fenning, a professor of nanoengineering and member of the Sustainable Power and Energy Center at UC San Diego.

«Using near - UV light to power these windows means that the solar cells can be transparent and occupy the same footprint of the window without competing for the same spectral range or imposing aesthetic and design constraints,» Loo added.

They explained that the near - UV solar cell technology can also power internet - of - things sensors and other low - power consumer products.

The smart window controls the transmission of visible light and infrared heat into the building, while the new type of solar cell uses near - UV light to power the system.

Printed plastic solar cells should be able to harvest enough energy from indoor light to power your phone within the next few months

He envisions a system that uses electric power generated during the day by solar cells to separate water using his new electrode.

In one experiment, they hooked a solar cell to one of the batteries and used solar power to light an LED display.

Transparent near - UV solar cells, on the other hand, don't generate as much power as the infrared version, but don't impede the transmission of infrared radiation, so they complement the smart window's task.

In the study, the platinum - based solar cell reached a power conversion efficiency of 7.89 percent, which is considered standard.

Now Carroll and his colleagues at Wake Forest's Center for Nanotechnology and Molecular Materials have shown how to incorporate nanoscale polymer trees to improve the potentially revolutionary solar cell's ability to produce power.

For example, it could be used to create supersensitive solar cells or even to power a Mars rover that would gather energy from a microwave beam sent by a satellite orbiting the Red Planet.