solar energy
Solar Module Manufacturers Turn to Innovative Solutions to Enhance Production Processes and Meet Growing Market Demands
Following a successful year in 2010, Saint-Gobain Solar, a leading manufacturer of sustainable materials and engineered renewable energy solutions, is on track…
Nanotechnology points the way to greener pastures
A research team led by Miho Yamauchi and Masaki Takata from the RIKEN SPring-8 Center in Harima has now discovered an almost ideal way to detoxify the effects…
NASA prepares to launch next Earth-observing satellite mission
Glory is scheduled to launch from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California on Feb. 23 at 5:09 a.m. EST. It will join a fleet called the Afternoon Constellation…
Debunking Solar Energy Efficiency Measurements
In recent years, developers have been investigating light-harvesting thin film solar panels made from nanotechnology — and promoting efficiency metrics to make…
Broken glass yields clues to climate change
A study appearing this week in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences finds that microscopic particles of dust, emitted into the atmosphere when dirt…
Cassini's CIRS Reveals Saturn Is on a Cosmic Dimmer Switch
But unlike an ordinary bulb, Saturn's southern hemisphere consistently emitted more energy than its northern one. On top of that, energy levels changed with…