Tag: solar cell technology
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Teaching Children About Renewable Energy Through Kits
This is a guest post by Liz Nelson from WhiteFence.com. She is a freelance writer and blogger from Houston. Questions and comments can be sent to: liznelson17 @ gmail.com. While building your own solar array to provide enough power to your home to be 100-percent sustainable could cost tens of thousands of dollars, you don’t…
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UT ARLINGTON RESEARCH TEAM DEVELOPS NEW MEANS OF CONVERTING LIGHT AND HEAT INTO ELECTRICITY
Researchers from the University of Texas at Arlington, working alongside Louisiana Tech University assistant professor Long Que, have created a hybrid nanomaterial that converts both light and heat into electricity. Previously, certain nanomaterials could be used to convert light into electricity and others to convert thermal energy into electricity but there have not before been…