Researchers in Australia are working on a way to lower the cost of producing solar thermal energy by as much as 40% with the help of shatterproof rear-view mirrors originally designed for cars.

Converting plastics and greenhouse gases -- two of the biggest threats facing the natural world -- into useful and valuable products using solar energy is an important step in the transition to a ...

The work builds on preliminary research demonstrating the concept on the laboratory scale, using LRESE's high-flux solar simulator ... or the green plastic precursor ethylene.

With many buildings struggling with weight issues, a lighter solar panel material was needed. This led to the development of plastic-based solar panels, which are lighter and more flexible than ...

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Canadian solar simulator developer G2V Optics and Sinton Instruments, a US-based PV characterization specialist, have created a solar simulator for solar cells and modules. The new instrument ...

Radiantly versatile – In Cologne, DLR has a unique facility in Germany for irradiation tests with natural and artificial sunlight in the form of the High-Flux Solar Furnace and Solar Simulator. The ...

On it, you can view objects in our solar system from different viewpoints and moments in time. Fill out each drop down menu (date, field of view, ect,) and then click run simulator. To do it again ...

Oxford PV, which has a production line near Berlin, used Fraunhofer’s multispectral solar simulator to verify its world record efficiency claim. It’s like re-creating natural sunlight in a lab ...