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The Copper Development Association (CDA) is forecasting robust growth and lower costs throughout the energy storage market in a new study by KEMA which evaluates the five year market for grid energy storage technologies in the United States.
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The study predicts that over the next five years, the cost of energy storage will decrease while technology investments will continue. Depending on financial... Read Full Story
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New solar cells could increase the maximum efficiency of solar panels by over 25%, according to scientists from the University of Cambridge.
Scientists from the Cavendish Laboratory, the University’s Department of Physics, have developed a novel type of solar cell which could harvest energy from the sun much more efficiently than traditional designs.
The research, published today, could dramatically improve the amount of useful energy created by solar panels.
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SAE Institute today opened its world headquarters at its largest campus to date in Oxford.
SAE Institute is a leading higher education company, specialising in creative media, including audio engineering, 3D animation, digital filmmaking, games design and web development. At 33,000 square feet, the campus will be SAE’s biggest creative technology centre, as well as the flagship school amongst the 54 SAE Institutes that already exist in 26 countries around the world. SAE currently employs... Read Full Story
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The government has failed in an appeal against a decision which blocked its attempts to reduce solar subsidies.
The court case involved the government’s move to halve the payments made to households with solar panels, which it says are unsustainable. Solar businesses and campaigners had warned thousands of jobs could be lost as a result of the move.
Under the feed-in tariffs programme, people in Britain with solar panels are paid for the electricity they generate.
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Developing fully sustainable and carbon-negative construction materials is the goal at Encos Ltd, a University of Leeds spin-off company. The company’s patented method for manufacturing carbon-negative masonry products from waste materials is the result of research carried out by Dr John Forth and his team in the School of Civil Engineering.
The process uses a combination of vegetable oil-based binders which are mixed with graded waste aggregates. The mixture is then shaped into bricks and... Read Full Story
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Converting sunlight into electricity is not economically attractive because of the high cost of solar cells, but a recent, purely optical approach to improving luminescent solar concentrators (LSCs) may ease the problem, according to researchers at Argonne National Laboratories and Penn State.
Using concentrated sunlight reduces the cost of solar power by requiring fewer solar cells to generate a given amount of electricity. LSCs concentrate light by absorbing and re-emiting it at lower... Read Full Story
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Hybrid cars, powered by a mixture of gas and electricity, have become a practical way to “go green” on the roads. Now researchers at Tel Aviv University are applying the term “hybrid” to power plants as well.
Author John Whear, a biomedical engineer at the Cancer Therapy & Research Center at The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, examines how to manage rainwater as a common pool resource. Whear studied management techniques for other common pool resources like... Read Full Story
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ScienceDaily (Nov. 10, 2011) — Following the release of a Commission report on critical raw materials in 2010, scientists at the Joint Research Centre (JRC) highlighted in a new report that five metals, essential for manufacturing low-carbon technologies, show a high risk of shortage. Reasons for this lie in Europe’s dependency on imports, increasing global demand, supply concentration and geopolitical issues. The report recommends actions to prevent shortages and thus allow a smooth... Read Full Story
