photovoltaics
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Two Researchers Dead After EU-Backed Experimental Hybrid Explodes
The project sought to convert ICE vehicles to hybrids, through the addition of electric motors, batteries, and solar panels.
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Here’s a Beginner’s Guide to Solar Panels
Solar panels work by using sunlight to generate electricity, which is then fed into your home and the grid. Let’s explain the ins and outs.
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This Kit Promises to Bring Solar Power to Buses
There are no arguments about it, switching our gas-powered transport for battery-powered alternatives is one of the best ways to cut our environmental impact. But, in doing so, we risk wasting a whole heap of functioning vehicles. Now, a new solar power kit promises to increase the efficiency of buses and trucks until it’s time…
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New Tower in China Brings Us a Step Closer to Space-Based Solar Power
Researchers at China’s Xidian University are claiming to have completed testing and inspection of a ground array that could pave the way to space-based solar power — a concept long heralded as a potential solution to our energy woes.