| Index | Recent Threads | Unanswered Threads | Who's Active | Guidelines | Search |
 |
World Community Grid Forums
Category: Completed Research
Forum: The Clean Energy Project - Phase 2 Forum
Thread: Interesting News Articles Related To Solar Energy |
| No member browsing this thread |
|
Thread Status: Active Total posts in this thread: 122
|
|
| Author |
|
|
littlepeaks
Veteran Cruncher USA Joined: Apr 28, 2007 Post Count: 748 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
|
(Continued from Clean Energy Project - Phase I)
I saw an interesting article a few weeks ago in Chemical and Engineering News entitled "The Power of Plastic." It discusses advantages of and developments in Organic Solar Cells. The article briefly touches upon the Clean Energy Project, but does not mention the World Community Grid.  FLEX TIME Made from light-sensitive polymers, lightweight flexible photovoltaic sheets (such as the Konarka product shown here) are converting ordinary surfaces into inexpensive power generators. |
||
|
|
Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
|
||
|
|
Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
Interesting article.
Thanks for posting the link. |
||
|
|
Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
Micheal Wank of the Technical University - Delft (NL), has developed a process to speed up Amorphic Silicium PVs manufacturing by a factor of 10. The English version is appearing shortly, the Dutch page can be put through the universal Google translator.... the 250 nanometer thick layer now created in 4 minutes instead of 40.
----------------------------------------http://www.tudelft.nl/live/pagina.jsp?id=2705...-fc1da82d7d74&lang=en --//-- edit: The original article link http://www.tudelft.nl/live/pagina.jsp?id=2705...-fc1da82d7d74&lang=nl [Edit 1 times, last edit by Former Member at Mar 16, 2011 10:22:32 AM] |
||
|
|
Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
Hi everybody,
yes, we were in contact with the author of the article, talked to him about WCG and CEP when he visited us, and posted the article somewhere on the research log when it first came out. Too bad that there was not more info about WCG, but we had a blurb later in C&EN calling for support from the American Chemical Society. You can find it here: http://aspuru.unix.fas.harvard.edu/uploads/cen20101115-a5771bce93-pp.pdf The development in solar cell technology is quite amazing - the efficiency of OPVs for example went up from 5% to 8.3% in basically a year! Best wishes from Your Harvard CEP team P.S. I think Konarka's OPV is actually called 'Power Plastics'. |
||
|
|
Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
GM virus help to seperate the good from the bad carbon nanotubes to build more efficient solar cells:
http://www.pcworld.com/article/226626/genetic..._nanotubes.html#tk.hp_new Now lets hope them modded viruses do not get out into the wild and start reorganizing those nanotube build Clean Water filters we're computing. ;) --//-- |
||
|
|
Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
New Solar Cell Technology Greatly Boosts Efficiency
With the creation of a 3-D nanocone-based solar cell platform, a team led by Oak Ridge National Laboratory's Jun Xu has boosted the light-to-power conversion efficiency of photovoltaics by nearly 80 percent... |
||
|
|
Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
Had put this in the "Read it Later" folder of Firefox, some time ago:
Make your own solar panel: Organic solar cells http://solarpower.e-bookz.info/?p=159 |
||
|
|
Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
Hi SekeRob,
that is actually a quite nice introduction to plastic solar cells. We hope you don't mind us reposting this on facebook and the log. Best wishes Your Harvard CEP team |
||
|
|
Former Member
Cruncher Joined: May 22, 2018 Post Count: 0 Status: Offline |
Hat tip over to the posters at RealClimate, a new publication, IEEE Journal of Photovoltaics, is coming out solely dedicated to PV. A snip:
By Candace Lombardi June 15, 2011 Excerpt: Solar photovoltaics have the potential to be the most cost-effective electricity source and could even challenge fossil fuels within 10 years. That’s according to an announcement made by leaders of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) today as part of the organization’s launch of photovoltaic research initiatives. “Solar PV will be a game changer. No other alternative source has the same potential. As the cost of electricity from solar continues to decrease compared to traditional energy sources, we will see tremendous market adoption, and I suspect it will be a growth limited only by supply,” James Prendergast, IEEE Executive Director and IEEE Senior Member, said in a statement. “Solar energy is the earth’s most abundant energy resource. The rate of energy from sunlight hitting the earth is of the order of 100 petawatts. Just a fraction is needed to meet the power needs of the entire globe, as it takes approximately 15 terawatts to power the earth (1 petawatt = 1,000 terawatts),” according to the IEEE. --//-- |
||
|
|
|