Posts Tagged ‘solar electricity for homes’

Artificial forest for solar water-splitting: First fully integrated artificial photosynthesis nanosystem

Researchers have created the first fully integrated artificial photosynthesis nanosystem. While "artificial leaf" is the popular term for such a system, the key to this success was an "artificial forest."
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Significant improvement in performance of solar-powered hydrogen generation

Using a powerful combination of microanalytic techniques that simultaneously image photoelectric current and chemical reaction rates across a surface on a micrometer scale, researchers have shed new light on what may become a cost-effective way to generate hydrogen gas... Read more

Storage power plant on the seabed

A group of scientists aims to store electricity at the bottom of the sea. The energy will be stored with the help of high water pressure.
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Entrepreneur giving space shuttle truss new uses

A truss design devised to help workers process space shuttles continues to find new uses as a space shuttle engineer-turned-entrepreneur adapts it to everything from a solar-powered electric generator to a mobile cellphone tower.Read more