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'Solar' breakthrough reveals green ambitions
Blog MIT Energy Storage Discovery Could Lead To "Unlimited" Solar Power! Illustrated with a large picture of a solar cell array, it has a familiar, breathless style: The process, loosely based on plant photosynthesis, uses solar energy to split water...
[October 26, 2008, 12:29 in Rupert's Diary by Rupert Goodwins]
Solar server farm
Blog The article fails to mention that AISO.net has been relying on solar energy for the past ten years, but it's pretty cool nevertheless. Solar power may be a viable solution to power problems in countries which get a lot of sun, but it would take a...
[October 4, 2007, 17:19 in News Blog by Tom Espiner]
Freeloader Pro solar powered charger
Blog This is an impressive piece of kit comprising a double solar panel, plentiful array of connectors and a separate charging unit that copes with camera batteries. I’ve been on a long quest for ways to charge my many gadgets without needing mains power.
[August 11, 2009, 12:08 in Reviews Blog by Sandra Vogel]
Silicon balls drop in zero G for solar cell magic
Blog Rather magically, thousands of highly efficient, highly tiny, very spherical solar cells are created. What do you think happens when you dribble molten silicon at thousands of droplets per second through a 14 metre tube?
[March 10, 2008, 21:30 in News Blog by Rupert Goodwins]
RE: 'Solar' breakthrough reveals green ambitions
Blog Comment I also think we could do with a mass deployment of solar cells in the worlds deserts. The only real enrgy source I can think about as relating to their optimism would be truck loads of cash. It's kind of mean of them to raise hopes prematurly like...
[October 26, 2008, 18:58 by roger andre]
Transparent solar cell? Can't see it myself
Blog News from the Far East: Japan's National Institute of Materials Science (NIMS) has built a prototype boron nitride solar cell. BN is particularly fascinating because it has a wide band-gap, an aspect of the way its electrons are configured that...
[September 9, 2008, 15:17 in News Blog by Rupert Goodwins]
Samsung's Solar Powered mobile phone
Blog Samsung has just announced a solar powered mobile phone. Time will tell whether the solar panel can produce enough energy to keep the phone going satisfactorily. Clearly it can't charge overnight via solar, so does that mean taking it out of your...
[February 13, 2009, 7:17 in Reviews Blog by Sandra Vogel]
RE: Samsung's Solar Powered mobile phone
Blog Comment I love the idea of solar energy capture clothing, snaffling the energy generated while walking, and so on, and long for the technology to live up to the dream. I've yet to come across a solar charger for phones and other gadgets that works well...
[February 14, 2009, 10:52 by Sandra Vogel]
RE: Freeloader Pro solar powered charger
Blog Comment Yeah thats a great idea there still about over hear just not as common as they once where, Trevor Baylis and co recently came up with wind up portable media player for example amongst many other items.the main site; http://www.trevorbaylisbrands...
[August 18, 2009, 16:49 by CA]
RE: Transparent solar cell? Can't see it myself
Blog Comment Ha good one! I like the idea of putting glass to work. Do you think we'll ever be able to develop sub nano valve tech that could gently gush or even stroke all the power we need from atoms and < such?
[September 11, 2008, 8:00 by roger andre]
RE: Samsung's Solar Powered mobile phone
Blog Comment Hi Sandra, This is good news indeed! I am hoping there will soon be a fibre that can be worn whilst it harnesses the suns rays. It needn't look like silver foil if it can be made to work on the nano scale of engineering.
[February 16, 2009, 11:19 by roger andre]
Concentrated Solar Power
Talkback I fully agree with the writer that CSP can be only way out for us today. It can ensure us with clean drinking water and food security and can provide us with environment friendly source of energy. I wonder why our political, scientific and economic...
About: IBM uses liquid metal to boost solar-cell efficiency
[May 18, 2008, 14:58 by ittaskforce]
RE: Freeloader Pro solar powered charger
Blog Comment Nice review Sandra. I've been looking at this charger too and wondered if it could meet my needs. I suspect not: it seems expensive so (as you say) it has to work well, and for that money, I don't want to have to carry other chargers around too.
[August 11, 2009, 13:04 by manek]
RE: Freeloader Pro solar powered charger
Blog Comment Indeed there is still a great void to be filled in this area and the best person to tackle this issue is non other than Trevor Baylis and is continuing to do so, big companies should be working with him to fill this gap.
[August 11, 2009, 14:06 by CA]
RE: Freeloader Pro solar powered charger
Blog Comment On a bike (meaning bicycle, not motorbike :-) ) it could be a good (although not perfect) solution to use a dynamo. Not sure about other countries but here in Czech republic in the past times there were bikes usually equipped with dynamo powered...
[August 14, 2009, 12:06 by kybergreg]
Built-in solar power will never be the answer
Talkback There are a number of practical barriers to having solar cells on devices: They only work during daylight hours, and only if you're outside or by a window; You have to keep your device out in the open, which isn't always possible or desirable; You...
About: Uptake of solar-charged mobile devices 'limited'
[August 18, 2009, 16:46 by Jonathan Bennett]
RE: 'Solar' breakthrough reveals green ambitions
Blog Comment Good tech find Rupert, though the article does have that slight MIT PR revenue raising tone about it. Perhaps they're looking to stimulate VC awareness prior to another round of funding? Whatever the case, I thought James Barber's assertion that...
[October 28, 2008, 8:07 by thinkfeeldo]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog So is Macclesfield, where a scale model of the solar system is being created. Few of the reports of the Macclesfield cosmic caper say that there's already a 1:500 million scale model of the solar system already orbiting York -- and this one's on a...
[March 26, 2004, 16:15 in Rupert's Diary by Rupert Goodwins]
RE: Hello Dolly! Hurricane Preparations
Blog Comment So solar cell arrays make sense at least technically. The problem has always been the economics of a solar array. The one resource we have in abundance in Texas is sunlight! A single panel doesn't really amount to nearly enough power for serious work.
[August 1, 2008, 9:11 by Xwindowsjunkie]
There are Appliances and Appliances
Talkback For example I have an analogue wristwatch (as in physical moving hands) that is entirely solar powered. As another example, I would guess that many solid-state music players could be effectively solar powered, whereas a larger hard drive version...
About: Uptake of solar-charged mobile devices 'limited'
[August 19, 2009, 11:37 by Tezzer]
