We had some really great threads last year, with the following four nominated for the Thread of the Year award in this January's Environment Site Awards ceremony.
Solar Energy ForumI have no doubt that we will be successful in harnessing the sun's energy.... If sunbeams were weapons of war, we would have had solar energy centuries ago. ~Sir George Porter
by Elizabeth Thomson, MIT News Office
Massachusetts, United States [RenewableEnergyWorld.com]
Imagine windows that not only provide a clear view and illuminate rooms, but also use sunlight to efficiently help power the building they are part of. MIT engineers report a new approach to harnessing the sun's energy that could allow just that.
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the focused light increases the electrical power obtained from each solar cell "by a factor of over 40,"
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US DoE's NREL and Optony have come together to combine their expertise in order to create cheaper Solar Technology. NREL is expert in Thin Film Solar PV Cells while Optony is expert in Concentrating Solar Power (CSP) Technology.
Together they shall prepare a new system using Thin Film and CSP to create more than 40% effeciency....
Great News. There does seem to be some evidence of convergence of technologies in the solar energy sphere. i.e. the CSP part being applied to PV. It just makes sense to go this way.
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“But we have reason to believe that it will lead to low-cost electricity.”
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The multi-junction gallium arsenide-based solar cells now being considered for CPV systems are the most efficient at 40%.
CPV systems create electricity using lenses or mirrors to concentrate sunlight on high-efficiency solar cells.
“The reason we’re working with NREL researchers is because we consider them to be the world’s experts in these solar technologies,” says PR Yu, president and CEO of Optony.
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MIT Research May Bring Down Cost of Solar Energy
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