The Future is Clear

Imagine 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.

Solar Window Technology a promising and significant advancement | Construction magazine

In collaboration with the University of South Florida and the US Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), New Energy Technologies debuted its Solar Window technology based on an organic photovoltaic solution that can be sprayed directly onto glass as an incredibly thin, sub-micrometer layer. The next challenge was to attempt to develop methods for scaling up the fabrication method. The latest manufacturing innovation enables high-speed roll-to-roll and sheet-to-sheet manufacturing, according to the company. Importantly, the process can be executed at ambient pressure and low...

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Innovative Solar Cell Tech Gets Snapped Up In Lenders' Fire Sale | Photovoltaic (PV) | ReWire | KCET

Twin Creeks' Hyperion technology on display last March | Twin Creeks press photo

by Chris Clarke

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 Twin Creeks, which had developed a way to increase the amount of solar panel made from a unit of silicon crystals by a factor of ten

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Innovative Solar Cell Tech Gets Snapped Up In Lenders' Fire Sale | Photovoltaic (PV) | ReWire | KCET

LENR Testing at NASA Langley

Learn more: Low Energy Nuclear Reactions, the Realism and the Outlook
by Dennis Bushnell, Chief Scientist, NASA Langley Research Center
http://futureinnovation.larc.nasa.gov/view/articles/futurism/bushnell/low-ene...

Breakthrough: Better Fiber for Better Products

New silicon carbide fiber breakthrough from Idaho National Laboratory's materials scientist John Garnier and nuclear engineer George Griffith about their game-changing carbon fiber technology. Coming to a spacecraft near you.

Full article by Michael Hess at http://energy.gov/articles/lab-breakthrough-better-fiber-better-products