Wednesday, May 25, 2016

Nanomaterials could double efficiency of solar cells by converting waste heat into usable energy

This could reduce (or even eliminate?) the need for batteries to store excess solar production:

http://techcrunch.com/2016/05/24/nanomaterials-could-double-efficiency-of-solar-cells-by-converting-waste-heat-into-usable-energy/?ncid=rss

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Germany modernizes it's windmills

Germany's first generation of commercial wind turbines was installed in the 1990s — small machines of 100 to 500 kilowatts that stood 40...