Devices from electric cars to laptops could benefit from a new kind of capacitor, which combines the best features of conventional devices to store a large quantity of charge and release it rapidly.
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Solar power continues to be a focus for the United States—a nation continuing to strive for breakthroughs in alternative energy. Last night, when President Barack Obama addressed Congress, he mentioned solar power in the United States. “We invented solar technology, but we’ve fallen behind countries like Germany and Japan in producing it.” While other countries [...]
A solar power milestone was reached on Tuesday when First Solar Inc. brought its manufacturing costs for solar panels down to $1 per watt. But a study from the University of California and Lawrence Berkeley National Labs suggests that this might be the bottom for a price-point—if solar power is ever going to scale up [...]
Wacker Chemie AG, a German chemical company, announced Thursday that it will build a $1 billion plant with 500 jobs in southeastern Tennessee to produce hyperpure polycrystalline silicon, a product used to make solar panels and semiconductors.
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California’s solar power market and its startups stand to gain from utilities making a direct play into renewable energy development, a prominent industry representative said in an interview yesterday.
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