Menu

Blog

Archive for the ‘solar power’ category: Page 46

Feb 24, 2022

IoT-Enabled Mailbox Lets You Check Your Mail Without Leaving Your House

Posted by in categories: computing, internet, solar power, sustainability

Whether you live in an apartment downtown or in a detached house in the suburbs, if your mailbox is not built into your home you’ll have to go outside to see if anything’s there. But how do you prevent that dreadful feeling of disappointment when you find your mailbox empty? Well, we’re living in 2022, so today your mailbox is just another Thing to connect to the Internet of Things. And that’s exactly what [fhuable] did when he made a solar powered IoT mailbox.

The basic idea was to equip a mailbox with a camera and have it send over pictures of its contents. An ESP32-Cam module could do just that: with a 1,600 × 1,200 camera sensor, a 160 MHz CPU and an integrated WiFi adapter, [fhuable] just needed to write an Arduino sketch to have it take a picture every few hours and upload it to an FTP server.

Continue reading “IoT-Enabled Mailbox Lets You Check Your Mail Without Leaving Your House” »

Feb 24, 2022

Kenya tests new solar panels to generate power and enhance food security

Posted by in categories: food, solar power, sustainability

Feb 22, 2022

LG axes solar panel business in midst of rising material costs and supply contraints

Posted by in categories: business, mobile phones, solar power, sustainability

LG’s solar business panel business joins the company’s smartphone business in the graveyard, with the latter business being canned last April as it could not compete with other smartphone brands in the market. Prior to the smartphone business closing shop, it had recorded 23 consecutive quarters of loss.

The decision was approved by the board of directors on Monday night, LG said.

LG’s solar panel production will start winding down next month, the company said, with the business to officially shut down at the end of June.

Feb 21, 2022

The future looks bright for UK solar

Posted by in categories: solar power, sustainability

Last year’s figures marked the first time the market saw sustained, subsidy-free growth across residential, commercial and utility scale projects, according to trade body Solar Energy UK.

Feb 18, 2022

Engineering Student Builds Solar Panels That Don’t Need Direct Sunlight, Uses UV Light

Posted by in categories: engineering, solar power, sustainability

Also read: IIT delhi built solar panels that track sun’s movement to generate more electricity.

However, now an engineer from the Philippines has developed a new kind of solar panel that doesn’t really need sunlight to generate electricity. At least not directly.

Developed by Carvey Ehren Maigue, a student at Mapua University in the Philippines, the novel solar panels (called AuRES) are designed to feed off the UV rays of the sun — something that even dense cloudy days cannot block.

Feb 18, 2022

Revolutionary new solar panels don’t need sunlight to generate energy

Posted by in categories: solar power, sustainability

New solar panels that don’t need sunlight have been invented and could revolutionize the green energy initiative.


The idea of solar panels that don’t need sunlight might sound crazy, but it’s not completely impossible. As a cornerstone of the revolution to bring more clean energy to people, solar panels have become one of the best options out there. However, these energy conductors have one fatal flaw. They require direct sunlight to create energy. What if we could remove that flaw, though? That was the idea behind AuREUS, a new solar panel that doesn’t rely on direct sunlight to generate energy.

Continue reading “Revolutionary new solar panels don’t need sunlight to generate energy” »

Feb 18, 2022

These New Solar Panels Don’t Need Sunlight to Produce Energy

Posted by in categories: engineering, solar power, sustainability

Solar panels are a cornerstone of the clean energy revolution. And yet, they have one great flaw: when the clouds roll in their productivity dives.

Now, a new type of solar panel has been developed by an electrical engineering student at Mapua University that harvests the unseen ultraviolet light from the sun that makes it through even dense cloud coverage. Maigue, who won the James Dyson Sustainability Award for his creation, hopes it will soon be used on the windows and walls of large buildings, turning them into constant sources of energy.

Continue reading “These New Solar Panels Don’t Need Sunlight to Produce Energy” »

Feb 18, 2022

Solar canals could generate 13GW of energy annually for California

Posted by in categories: climatology, solar power, sustainability

Turlock Irrigation District (TID) has announced Project Nexus, a pilot project to build solar panel canopies over a portion of TID’s existing canals to operate and research how water-plus-energy can meet California’s needs for climate resiliency.

The Project Nexus could contribute to a more water resilient future for California and position the State to meet its ambitious clean energy goals. The Project will assess the reduction of water evaporation resulting from mid-day shade and wind mitigation; improvements to water quality through reduced vegetative growth; reduction in canal maintenance through reduced vegetative growth; and generation of renewable electricity.

The inspiration for Project Nexus comes from the concept presented in a recent study conducted by researchers at the University of California, Merced, and UC Santa Cruz, which found many advantages to mounting solar panels over open water canals. The study showed that covering the approximately 4,000 miles of California canals could save 63 billion gallons of water annually. This amount of water could be used to irrigate 50,000 acres of farmland or meet the residential water needs of more than 2 million people.

Feb 17, 2022

New studies highlight the potential of self-heating plasmas for fusion energy

Posted by in categories: nuclear energy, physics, solar power, sustainability

Most energy-producing technologies used today are unsustainable, as they cause significant damage to our planet’s natural environment. In recent years, scientists worldwide have thus been trying to devise alternative energy solutions that take advantage of abundant and natural resources.

In addition to , wind and seawater energy solutions, some physicists and engineers have been exploring the possibility of sourcing energy from nuclear reactions. This is the process through which two atomic nuclei combine to form a heavier nucleus and an energetic neutron.

Two research teams working at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s (LLNL) National Ignition Facility (NIF) demonstrated new approaches to increase nuclear energy production via a laser-driven . Their findings, published in recent Nature and Nature Physics papers, open new exciting possibilities for one day using self-heating plasmas as sustainable energy sources.

Feb 16, 2022

‘Exciton surfing’ could enable next-gen energy, computing and communications tech

Posted by in categories: computing, solar power, sustainability

A quasiparticle that forms in semiconductors can now be moved around at room temperature, a University of Michigan-led study has shown. The finding could cool down computers, enabling faster speeds and higher efficiencies, and potentially make LEDs and solar panels more efficient.

Today’s electronic devices rely on electrons to move both energy and information around, but about half of that energy is wasted as heat due to . Excitons, which escape traditional electrical losses, are one potential alternative.

“If you think of the past almost two decades, the computers have always been at two to three gigahertz—they never increase the speed. And that’s the reason. It just gets too hot,” said Parag Deotare, assistant professor of electrical engineering and science and corresponding author of the study.

Page 46 of 131First4344454647484950Last