World’s First Solar Fuels Reactor for Night Passes Test Updated On Wed, Mar 28th, 2018 by Saurenergy International solar thermal energy researchers have successfully tested CONTISOL, a solar reactor that runs on air, able to make any solar fuel like hydrogen and to run day or night – because it uses concentrated solar power (CSP) which can include thermal energy storage. The promise of solar fuels is that we could have zero […] Read more
New Rechargeable Battery Perfect Fit for Extreme Cold Updated On Wed, Mar 21st, 2018 by Saurenergy This battery churns out charge even at –70° Celsius. A new type of battery, containing rechargeable cells, can still work out even in the extreme cold conditions where conventional batteries don’t work. This battery churns out charge even at –70° Celsius, a temperature where the typical lithium-ion batteries that power many of today’s cell phones, […] Read more
New Breakthrough Boosts Solar Fuel Efficiency Updated On Wed, Feb 28th, 2018 by Saurenergy Scientists of University of Twente have made significant efficiency improvements to the technology used to generate solar fuels. This involves the direct conversion of energy from sunlight into a usable fuel (in this case, hydrogen). Using only earthabundant materials, they developed the most efficient conversion method to date. The trick was to decouple the site […] Read more
Laser Evaporation Technology to Create New Solar Materials Updated On Thu, Feb 22nd, 2018 by Saurenergy A team of materials scientists at Duke University in the US has developed a new laser evaporation technique to create new hybrid thin-film materials that could be used to make solar cells, light-emitting diodes and photodetectors. The research team described their methods in the journal ACS Energy Letters. As Duke explains, Perovskites are a class […] Read more
Perovskite Solar Cells Achieve New Efficiency Breakthrough Says Research Updated On Thu, Feb 22nd, 2018 by Saurenergy A new study from researchers at the Department of Energy’s (DOE) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and the University of Texas at Austin reveals information about how perovskite solar cells degrade, which could enable improvements in performance and durability. Highly efficient at converting sunlight to electricity, perovskite solar cells have emerged as a revolutionary new […] Read more
IIT Kharagpur Student Gets Award at Clean Energy Conference in Paris Updated On Wed, Feb 21st, 2018 by Saurenergy The chemical engineering student, Ankur Mehta, was awarded the ‘Best (Oral) Presentation Certificate’ in the 7th edition of the 3-day International Conference. Ankur Mehta, a fourth year undergraduate student of IIT Kharagpur, has secured an award at an international conference on ‘Clean and Green Energy’ (ICCGE-2018) in Paris. The chemical engineering student, Ankur Mehta, was awarded the […] Read more
Dedicated R&D Department Needed in CEA, Says R.K. Singh Updated On Wed, Feb 21st, 2018 by Saurenergy Only way of improving life and system is questioning. This is the spirit I look for in my system, he added. R.K. Singh, Union Minister of State (IC) for Power and New & Renewable Energy, has stressed upon the need of a dedicated R&D department in CEA to coordinate the research in power sector. The […] Read more
Dealing With Cracks in India’s Solar Dreams Updated On Thu, Feb 8th, 2018 by Saurenergy In a first of its kind study in India, scientists from Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IITB) and National Institute of Solar Energy, New Delhi, conducted a detailed survey at 51 locations across India to check for the degradation in the performance of photovoltaic modules. This study, to establish reliability of the modules, could help […] Read more
Electricity Producing Next-Generation Smart Windows Discovered Updated On Thu, Jan 25th, 2018 by Saurenergy The researchers influenced the disclosure while examining the stage to the progress of the material, an inorganic perovskite. Researchers have found another material for cutting edge brilliant windows that not just obscure consequently when the Sun is too splendid yet in addition change over solar energy into power. Scientists at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory […] Read more
