tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38666996170252461702024-03-05T07:37:39.567-08:00Art-TechOnlineCindy S Martinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04401582576411306162noreply@blogger.comBlogger85125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3866699617025246170.post-49331581152837788132015-10-04T13:37:00.001-07:002015-10-04T13:40:06.340-07:00The Future is ClearImagine a city that’s actually a vast solar energy harvesting system. A team of Michigan State University researchers has developed a technology that can turn transparent surfaces, from building windows to cell phones, into solar collecting surfaces – without obstructing the view.
<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/qMhdpWMDp04" width="480"></iframe><div class="blogger-post-footer">http://gan.doubleclick.net/gan_click?lid=41000000027588024&pubid=21000000000349292</div>Cindy S Martinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04401582576411306162noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3866699617025246170.post-34483213639885393432014-10-21T14:53:00.001-07:002014-10-21T14:53:53.729-07:00Aquion Energy Unveils Next Generation of AHI Battery Technology Delivering a 40 Percent Increase in Energy<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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</tbody></table><span style="background-color: #fefefe; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">LAS VEGAS, Oct. 21, 2014 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- </span><a href="http://globenewswire.com/Tracker?data=k3nNzmlxqR5a2hHrRQvd89wdybwYHAYEeGTVIfyoJFd6Z8KJTb7h8TmjLGO7BjAhQXolDxN0GBNKUvkJiuClfQ%3D%3D" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: #fefefe; color: #165788; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank" title="Aquion Energy">Aquion Energy, Inc.</a><span style="background-color: #fefefe; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">, developer and manufacturer of Aqueous Hybrid Ion (AHI™) batteries and energy storage systems, today unveiled the second generation of AHI technology, delivering energy gains of up to 40 percent. The increased energy is achieved without an increase in the size or weight of either the S-Line Battery Stack or M-Line Battery Module product lines and directly translates into improved performance and delivered value in all of Aquion's target applications.</span><br /><br />
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Drawing their inspiration from <a class="autobesttag" href="http://dailyfusion.net/tag/photosynthesis/" rel="nofollow" style="background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border: 0px; color: #f25e3d; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="See the tag: photosynthesis (10 posts)">photosynthesis</a>, dye-sensitized solar cells offer the promise of low-cost solar photovoltaics and—when coupled with catalysts—even the possibility of generating hydrogen and oxygen, just like plants. Researchers at KTH Royal Institute of Technology have found a way to make dye-sensitized solar cells more energy-efficient and longer-lasting.<span id="more-19094" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></div>
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A research team that included James Gardner, Assistant Professor of Photoelectrochemistry at KTH, reported the success of a new quasi-liquid, polymer-based electrolyte that increases a dye-sensitized solar cell’s voltage and current, and lowers resistance between its electrodes.</div>
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The study highlights the advantages of speeding up the movement of oxidized electrolytes in a dye-sensitized solar cell, or DSSC. Also on the team from KTH were Lars Kloo, Professor of Inorganic <a class="autobesttag" href="http://dailyfusion.net/tag/chemistry/" rel="nofollow" style="background-position: 100% 50%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border: 0px; color: #f25e3d; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="See the tag: chemistry (19 posts)">Chemistry</a> and researcher Muthuraaman Bhagavathi Achari.</div>
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“We now have clear evidence that by adding the ion-conducting polymer to the solar cell’s cobalt redox electrolyte, the transport of oxidized electrolytes is greatly enhanced,” Gardner says. “The fast transport increases solar cell efficiency by 20 percent.”</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">The government’s energy research agency is spending $30 million to demonstrate cheap solar power that’s available day and night.</span></div>
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Combining the strengths of two different solar technologies could yield “hybrid solar power” that works even at night or when it’s cloudy.</div>
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The <a href="http://arpa-e.energy.gov/" style="border: 0px; color: #206f96; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Advanced Research Projects Agency–Energy</a> is devoting $30 million to several demonstration projects that will attempt to combine photovoltaics with solar thermal. Early-stage work being conducted by researchers around the U.S. hints at how the combined technology might work.<br />
<span style="line-height: 2rem;">Read the full story: </span><a href="http://www.technologyreview.com/news/517511/hybrid-solar-power-works-even-when-its-not-sunny/" style="background-color: transparent;">ARPA-E Project Combines Heat and Electricity | MIT Technology Review</a></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">http://gan.doubleclick.net/gan_click?lid=41000000027588024&pubid=21000000000349292</div>Cindy S Martinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04401582576411306162noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3866699617025246170.post-48488015417652697262013-07-09T11:12:00.001-07:002013-07-09T11:12:50.135-07:00SunDrum Solar Hybrid PVT System reaches peak 86% delivery record - Renewable Energy Focus<h2 class="article-intro" itemprop="description" style="background-color: white; color: #01405f; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 1.3em; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.4em; margin: 0px 0px 14px;">SunDrum Solar LLC said it has achieved a solar industry one hour peak delivery record of 86% for a hybrid solar system, which generates both photovoltaic and thermal (PVT) solar energy.</h2><div class="article-content" itemprop="articleBody" style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;"><div style="line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 12px;">This record was achieved on April 24, 2013 and was enabled by the combination of a standard Photovoltaic (PV) panel and the SDM 100 thermal collector from <a href="http://www.sundrumsolar.com/" style="color: #01405f; outline: none;" target="_blank">SunDrum Solar</a>.</div><div style="line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 12px;">After adjustment for all system losses, a record of 86% was used by the home in Massachusetts during the peak hour of 2-3PM - when 870W of thermal energy and 200W of electrical energy was delivered by each solar panel fitted with the SunDrum Solar Collector. This performance sets a new record for a fixed, non tracking, hybrid array, said the company.</div><div style="line-height: 1.4em; margin-bottom: 12px;">Read the full story at <a href="http://www.renewableenergyfocus.com/view/33360/sundrum-solar-hybrid-pvt-system-reaches-peak-86-delivery-record/" style="line-height: 1.4em;">http://www.renewableenergyfocus.com/view/33360/sundrum-solar-hybrid-pvt-system-reaches-peak-86-delivery-record/</a></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">http://gan.doubleclick.net/gan_click?lid=41000000027588024&pubid=21000000000349292</div>Cindy S Martinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04401582576411306162noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3866699617025246170.post-9739373506089017302013-05-05T10:42:00.001-07:002013-09-04T17:18:44.112-07:00Times of Oman | Feature :: Hybrid power plants: Renewable energy’s newest trend<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: black; font-size: 16px; line-height: 20.796875px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; width: 100%px;"><tbody style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">
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<span class="readfull" id="ctl00_ContentPlaceHolder1_news_desc" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px;">One option for renewable energy producers that has been open to utility companies but rarely utilized, is the installation of both wind and solar power plants together at the same location, which results in a doubling in the amount of electricity produced.<br />
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Prior to a study done by Reiner Lemoine Institut and Solarpraxis AG, it was (incorrectly) thought that the huge towers upon which the wind turbines are mounted would cast huge shadows over the photovoltaic solar panel array, thereby reducing their efficiency by a significant factor.<br />
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It turns out that when solar and wind power generation are combined on the same site, such hybrid power plants complement each other better, than had been imagined. Approximately twice the power generation is available from any such hybrid power plant site, when compared to wind or solar only.<br />
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The landmark study took into account the amount of sunlight loss (shading) which would occur in a carefully designed hybrid power plant. Energy losses were less than 2 percent of total output. This is a lower energy loss percentage, than compared to conventional power plant energy, such as coal — where up to 10 percent of the coal can be lost during transport from North America to China, or from Australia to China, and later storage, for example.<br />
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A major benefit of such hybrid power plants is that due to the relative intermittency of both wind power and solar power is they tend to cancel out the others weaknesses. Grid expansion, is therefore not required for hybrid power plants. Wind power peaks at night, during cool days, and in the colder seasons of the year — while solar produces power during the daylight hours, the warmer parts of the day and most especially during the warmer seasons, when the Sun is high in the sky, directly over the solar panel array...<br />
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That battery life video that had gone viral due to <a href="http://www.upworthy.com/see-the-scientific-accident-that-may-change-the-world-or-at-least-your-battery-l" style="border: 0px; color: #085990; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">a recent post on UpWorthy</a> (and which <a href="http://www.kcet.org/news/rewire/science/super-fast-biodegradable-batteries-made-of-carbon.html" style="border: 0px; color: #085990; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">we told you about Tuesday</a>) now has an update. We told you that researchers at Ric Kaner's lab at UCLA had found a way to make a non-toxic, highly efficient energy storage medium out of pure carbon using absurdly simple technology. Today, we can report that the same team may well have found a way to make that process scale up to mass-production levels.<br />
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The recap: Graphene, a very simple carbon polymer, can be used as the basic component of a "supercapacitor" -- an electrical power storage device that charges far more rapidly than chemical batteries. Unlike other supercapacitors, though, graphene's structure also offers a high "energy density," -- it can hold a lot of electrons, meaning that it could conceivably rival or outperform batteries in the amount of charge it can hold...</div>
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"The system is really a simple one, which exploits certain properties of quantum dots to harvest heat," Professor Andrew Jordan of the University of Rochester said. "Despite this simplicity, the power it could generate is still larger than any other nanoengine that has been considered until now."<br />
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The bad news is that another innovative California-based solar tech firm has gone out of business. The good news is that the firm's innovative technology lives on, and could well prove important in accelerating the state's solar revolution. Nashua, NH-based GT Advanced Technologies announced today that it had acquired core intellectual property of San Jose startup <a href="http://www.twincreekstechnologies.com/" style="border: 0px; color: #6892ad; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-style: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: initial; vertical-align: baseline;">Twin Creeks</a>, which had developed a way to increase the amount of solar panel made from a unit of silicon crystals by a factor of ten<br />
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<strong style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The World Future Energy Summit (WFES) 2013 will bring together globalleaders in policy, technology and business to develop new ways of thinking,and shape the future of renewable energy whilst prioritizing sustainability intheir efforts to address the world’s social, environmental and economicchallenges. </strong></div>
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Let's go a step further... Use the towers themselves as hybrid vibration, wind, solar and gravity power and storage framework. Definitely a step in the right direction though... | cindy s martin<br />
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It could. Transmission right-of-way corridors, vast swaths of vegetation-free landscape to protect high-voltage power lines, could provide enough space for over 600,000 megawatts of solar PV. These arrays could provide enough electricity to meet 20 percent of the country's electric needs. (Note: There may not be good interconnection opportunities for solar under these huge towers, so this should be read as a land use discussion rather than technical analysis of interconnection to the grid.)</div>
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It starts with the federal Government Accountability Office, which estimates there are <a href="http://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-08-347R" style="color: #2466ba; outline-style: none; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">155,000 miles of high-voltage transmission lines</a> in the United States (defined as lines 230 <span class="hiddenSpellError">kilovolts</span> and higher). According to at least two major utilities (<a href="http://www.duke-energy.com/safety/right-of-way-management/transmission.asp" style="color: #2466ba; outline-style: none; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Duke Energy</a> and the<a href="http://www.tva.gov/power/rightofway/faq.htm" style="color: #2466ba; outline-style: none; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Tennessee Valley Authority</a>), such power lines require a minimum of 150 feet of right-of-way — land generally cleared of all significant vegetation that might come in contact with the power lines...</div>
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