Sentences with phrase «solar cell systems»

An initial World Bank loan has helped 50,000 home owners in Bangladesh obtain solar cell systems.

When a villager buys a solar cell system, that person is in effect buying a 25 - year supply of electricity.

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Making the economics worse, the traditional solar system will generate 13,000 kilowatt hours (kWh) in a year, but the solar roof will only generate 10,000 kWh because it packs fewer solar cells onto the same roof.

One reason for the muted effect: Solar cells and modules account for one - third or less of the overall cost of solar systems, and the industry has been relentlessly cutting the costs of all componSolar cells and modules account for one - third or less of the overall cost of solar systems, and the industry has been relentlessly cutting the costs of all componsolar systems, and the industry has been relentlessly cutting the costs of all components.

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) is planning a pilot project to test a system that allows individuals to invest in solar energy - generating cells and effectively receive rent from consumers that use the hardware.

The patent, a 28 - page request for «Systems, Method, and Apparatus for Curing Conductive Paste,» allows Tesla to bond solar cell - embedded tiles with an adhesive that is thermally cured under heat, and enables electrical conductivity between the bonded materials.

The partnership will see Tesla Motors integrate the solar cells and modules that Panasonic will begin manufacturing at the Buffalo facility next year into a solar energy system that will work with its energy storage products, the Powerwall and Powerpack.

Last July, for example, China's GCL System Integration Technology (GCL - SI) and Vina Solar revealed that they had started jointly producing PV cells in Vietnam.

If there was a God who intelligently designed the universe and life then why would we have anything bigger than our solar system inhabited by single cell organisms?

Jürgen Hauer, a co-author of the report and a junior research group leader at the Photonics Institute of the Vienna University of Technology, explained that natural systems have evolved to use light efficiently, but there are some caveats before engineers can design a solar cell that works as effectively as a leaf.

Instead of sending sunlight directly to the solar cell, thermophotovoltaic systems have an intermediate component that consists of two parts: an absorber that heats up when exposed to sunlight, and an emitter that converts the heat to infrared light, which is then beamed to the solar cell.

Munich - based Phoenix Solar AG, a German photovoltaic system installer, has committed $ 615 million (450 million Euros) to purchasing Solyndra's cylindrical solar cells as a core part of its future rooftop installation busiSolar AG, a German photovoltaic system installer, has committed $ 615 million (450 million Euros) to purchasing Solyndra's cylindrical solar cells as a core part of its future rooftop installation busisolar cells as a core part of its future rooftop installation business.

To understand the important interfaces in a solar cell connected to a water - splitting catalyst, researchers from Missouri University of Science & Technology developed a method to simply and controllably produce such a system.

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.

The M.I.T. invention combines the electricity generation of photovoltaic cells with the energy storage of solar - thermal systems

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

Scientists at Oxford University have developed a solvent system with reduced toxicity that can be used in the manufacture of perovskite solar cells, clearing one of the barriers to the commercialisation of a technology that promises to revolutionise the solar industry.

For example, a team led by Licheng Sun at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden, is working on a system that uses a photosensitised anode similar to those used in dye - sensitised solar cells (Chemical Communications, DOI: 10.1039 / c0cc01828g).

Higher efficiency means more electricity produced for a given size of solar cell, which increases power output and lowers overall system costs.

In addition, «The team is also interested in testing these fibers for multifunctional applications, including batteries, solar cells, biofuel cells, and sensors for flexible and wearable optoelectronic systems,» Dai said.

Solar cells, 62,120 of them, distributed over the surface of the wing, soak up the sun's rays, providing up to 32 kilowatts of direct - current electricity to power electric motors, computers, and other systems on the aircraft.

Thermal fluids are used to alleviate wear on components and tools and for machining operations like stamping and drilling, medical therapy and diagnosis, biopharmaceuticals, air conditioning, fuel cells, power transmission systems, solar cells, micro - and nanoelectronic mechanical systems and cooling systems for everything from engines to nuclear reactors.

This process could form the basis of a practical solar - energy storage system, Nocera says, in which electric current from a solar cell passes through water to the catalyst, breaking the water into oxygen and hydrogen through electrolysis.

The system's controller monitors the level of sunlight using a pyranometer — a single solar cell producing a tiny current which is proportional to the amount of sunlight striking it.

By moving the TPV cells when their power isn't needed, the system could be rapidly switched on and off to supplement electricity from wind or direct solar PV sources, Henry said.

In the team's demonstrations, the total power consumption of the backscatter system was 11 microwatts, which could be easily supplied by a tiny coin - cell battery for a couple of years, or powered using tiny solar cells.

Intel is looking at components of solar energy systems outside of the cell itself, says Wilson, who is tight - lipped about the specifics of SpectraWatt's technology.

«Intel is looking to drive [down] the cost of the overall system,» he adds, «not just the solar cell.»

He points out that the solar cell is only about 25 percent of the technology required to make an energy collection and conversion system.

«For photovoltaics, an array of lenses placed atop a solar cell can serve as a light collector to enhance the efficiency of the photovoltaic system by making it less sensitive to the inclination angle of the solar light with respect to the cell surface.»

For example, the Internal Revenue Service will revamp its facility in Andover, Md., to reduce energy use by more than 25 percent through light monitors, rooftop photovoltaic solar cells, efficient electrical devices, and a geothermal heating and cooling system.

This system had a net efficiency of 30 percent, about the same as a commercial solar cell.

That is important not only for the design of dye - sensitised solar cells, but also in order to be able to develop systems of materials for photocatalytic generation of hydrogen for storing solar energy as hydrogen fuel.»

«This new class of solar cell is only around four years old, so although it has high performance, people don't understand the system and why it's doing so well,» Leong says.

He envisions an arrangement in which the sensors, central unit and irrigation system all will communicate without wires, and the sensors can be powered wirelessly with batteries or solar cells.

Similarly, emerging technologies now allow scientists to observe cells (corresponding to planets in this analogy) and entire organs (corresponding to solar systems) with unprecedented precision.

We then establish a quantitative «constant - kink - saturation» relation between χaa and the fill factor in organic solar cells that is verified in detail in a model system and delineated across numerous high - and low - performing materials systems, including fullerene and non-fullerene acceptors.

Ade, with postdoctoral researcher and first author Long Ye from NC State and chemist He Yan from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, set out to determine at what temperature these systems transform from two separate materials to one homogenous mixture in organic solar cells.

«Our work sets the stage for researchers interested in studying the fundamental properties of interesting materials and applied systems, such as solar cells, batteries, sensors, paints and drug delivery systems,» said Dichtel, the Robert L. Letsinger Professor of Chemistry at the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences.

Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems ISE together with the company EV Group (EVG) have developed a new silicon - based multi-junction solar cell, which can convert exactly one - third of the incident sunlight into useful electriSolar Energy Systems ISE together with the company EV Group (EVG) have developed a new silicon - based multi-junction solar cell, which can convert exactly one - third of the incident sunlight into useful electrisolar cell, which can convert exactly one - third of the incident sunlight into useful electricity.

Continued research may allow HPFM to be used as a probe so, for instance, it would be possible to study the effect of new treatments being developed to save plants such as citrus trees from bacterial diseases rapidly decimating the citrus industry, or study fundamental photonically - induced processes in complex systems such as in solar cell materials or opto - electronic devices.

«Every organ, cell, and gene of our bodies contains artifacts of the history of the universe, solar system and planet,» said Shubin, Robert R. Bensley Professor of Organismal Biology and Anatomy at the University of Chicago.

The system the researchers tested used a type of solar cell known as dye - sensitized solar cells, a lightweight and inexpensive type where the active layer is composed of titanium dioxide, rather than the silicon used in conventional solar cells.

Planet - hunting outside our solar system is only for those with advanced science degrees, lab coats and Neil deGrasse Tyson's phone number in their cell phones.

This works at every level: our atoms working in harmony to create and keep our cells whole, our cells coming into harmony to create our bodies, our body's ability to come into harmony with other bodies to create communities and cultures, our culture's ability to get along and stop fighting in order to create a world of people living in harmony as one planet, the plants creating the harmony that hold our solar system together, and on and on.

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