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Jan 2, 2022

Huawei FusionSolar 2021: All-scenario PV & Storage Solution

Posted by in categories: solar power, sustainability

PV Guided Tours 2021: Huawei presents its All-scenario PV & Storage Solution for Europe. It enables high-efficient generation, use and storage of solar power in various applications, such as large-scale PV power plants, commercial, residential and stand-alone solutions. Our video shows all the innovations.

Dec 31, 2021

👏 What an amazing year this has been for space!

Posted by in categories: solar power, space travel, sustainability

NASA’s Exploration Ground Systems fully assembled NASA’s Space Launch System rocket and Orion Spacecraft, and our launch and recovery teams are fully certified for NASA Artemis I, launching next year. Artemis I will be the uncrewed start of humanity’s return to the Moon! 🌕


Risen Energy Co. is planning to build a 45 billion yuan ($7 billion) integrated solar power factory in Inner Mongolia that’ll run on clean energy.

Dec 31, 2021

China’s Risen Plans $7 Billion Solar Factory Run On Clean Energy

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Risen Energy Co. is planning to build a 45 billion yuan ($7 billion) integrated solar power factory in Inner Mongolia that’ll run on clean energy.

Dec 30, 2021

Who Needs Plants When You Can Harness Solar Energy With An Artificial Leaf?

Posted by in categories: chemistry, solar power, sustainability

The idea of a human-made device that can process solar energy to make usable fuels has been tantalizing researchers since the 1970s. There being no such thing as a free lunch, it is not so easy to engineer a device that mimics photosynthesis, which Mother Nature perfected a long time ago. Nevertheless, researchers at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley Lab in California appear to have solved an important piece of the “artificial leaf” challenge.

Solar Energy & The Artificial Leaf Of The Future

The concept of the artificial leaf first crossed the CleanTechnica radar in the form of a card-sized photoelectrochemical cell, back in 2011. Instead of converting sunlight into electricity, the cell acts as a catalyst that deploys solar energy to break water into oxygen and hydrogen.

Dec 29, 2021

The largest solar farm in Kentucky will be built on a former coal mine

Posted by in categories: employment, solar power, sustainability

The largest solar project in Kentucky will be built on an abandoned coal mine in Martin County and provide jobs for former coal workers.

Dec 29, 2021

BayWa r.e. sells 150 MW PV park to Verbund

Posted by in categories: solar power, sustainability

Austrian Verbund AG is acquiring the Illora photovoltaic project in southern Spain from BayWa r.e. The solar park, with a planned total capacity of 147.6 MW, is scheduled to go into operation in the first quarter of 2022.

Dec 29, 2021

Perovskite solar cell retains 99% of initial efficiency after 1450 hours of operation

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With an efficiency of 20.9%, the tested cell does not yet fully exploit the potential.

Dec 28, 2021

Introducing the light-operated hard drives of tomorrow

Posted by in categories: computing, solar power, sustainability

Circa 2020


What do you get when you place a thin film of perovskite material used in solar cells on top of a magnetic substrate? More efficient hard drive technology. EPFL physicist LĂĄszlĂł ForrĂł and his team pave the way for the future of data storage.

“The key was to get the technology to work at room temperature,” explains László Forró, EPFL physicist. “We had already known that it was possible to rewrite magnetic spin using light, but you’d have to cool the apparatus to—180 degrees Kelvin.”

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Dec 28, 2021

South Korean 20-Mile Solar ‘Bike Highway’ Generates Electricity

Posted by in categories: solar power, sustainability, transportation

Sunny way.


A ‘bike highway’ running between Daejon and Sejong in South Korea is a sight —or rather, a concept —, you surely haven’t thought of before: It stretches for 20 miles (32 km), and it not only shields cyclists from the sun but also generates power at the same time.

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Dec 26, 2021

Fantastical Thundertruck EV rocks fold-out solar awnings and a snap-on 6WD caboose

Posted by in categories: military, solar power, sustainability

This all-electric 4×4 off-road concept has a monster battery pack, a brutally angular and military look that borrows heavily from the Cybertruck, and pop-out solar panels for off-grid charging. Oh, and if you need extra range, you can snap two extra wheels and a battery onto the back of it with a self-balancing caboose that makes it a six-wheel-drive.

First things first: Thundertruck is the brainchild of a Los Angeles “creative consultancy,” conceived mainly as a way to keep the team busy during the first wave of COVID lockdowns. “Instead of baking bread or making puzzles,” says the Wolfgang L.A. team, “we decided to make a new state-of-the-art EV truck.”

So while Wolfgang says it “has the ability to support an entire product development program, from research and strategy to initial sketches and first prototypes, all the way to advertising launch campaigns and content creation,” it’s fair to say it’s unlikely we’ll be seeing the Thundertruck out bush-bashing or crushing hillclimbs any day soon.

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