Solarcells http://www.solarcells.cc Solar Energy - Powered by the Sun Fri, 06 Mar 2009 13:15:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 cnet: Making solar cheaper than coal http://www.solarcells.cc/cnet-making-solar-cheaper-than-coal/ http://www.solarcells.cc/cnet-making-solar-cheaper-than-coal/#comments Fri, 06 Mar 2009 13:15:07 +0000 admin http://www.solarcells.cc/?p=34 If idealism played a role in starting 1366 Technologies, the business plan is all about cold, hard numbers. The 20-person start-up has an ambitious economic target: to make solar cheaper than coal in three years. That means producing silicon solar cells at less than $1 per watt, cutting the current costs by about half. more

]]> http://www.solarcells.cc/cnet-making-solar-cheaper-than-coal/feed/ 0 More than 200 Solar Starups http://www.solarcells.cc/more-than-200-solar-starups/ http://www.solarcells.cc/more-than-200-solar-starups/#comments Tue, 20 Jan 2009 00:15:08 +0000 admin http://www.solarcells.cc/?p=31 Blogger Eric Wesoff has revisited his list of 150 Solar Startups and updated the count to 200. In his six-part blog piece he grouped them into

  • Wafered Silicon, Installers, Financiers, Balance of Systems
  • CPV
  • Next-Gen PV
  • Thin Film
  • Solar AC and CHP
  • CSP

    read all about it here.

    ]]> http://www.solarcells.cc/more-than-200-solar-starups/feed/ 0 Not new, but suddenly in high demand http://www.solarcells.cc/not-new-but-suddenly-in-high-demand/ http://www.solarcells.cc/not-new-but-suddenly-in-high-demand/#comments Sun, 23 Nov 2008 17:29:17 +0000 admin http://www.solarcells.cc/?p=29 The technology is not new, but it is suddenly in high demand. As prices rise for fossil fuels and worries grow about their contribution to global warming, solar thermal plants are being viewed as a renewable power source with huge potential. more @ NYTimes

    ]]>     http://www.solarcells.cc/not-new-but-suddenly-in-high-demand/feed/ 0     New Solarcell Material Captures Full Light Spectrum http://www.solarcells.cc/new-solarcell-material-captures-full-light-spectrum/ http://www.solarcells.cc/new-solarcell-material-captures-full-light-spectrum/#comments Sat, 01 Nov 2008 12:57:23 +0000 admin http://www.solarcells.cc/?p=16 Researchers have created a new material that absorbs all the energy contained in sunlight, and generates electrons in a way that makes them easier to capture. The chemists and their colleagues at Ohio State University combined electrically conductive plastic with metals including molybdenum and titanium to create the hybrid material. more

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