When Markéta Šindlerová talks about solar panels, she doesn’t start with sunlight or temperature - she starts with data. “The point of EmissionBase,” she says, “is to know how much CO₂ is produced in ...
It’s hard work soaking up sunlight to generate clean electricity. After about 25 to 30 years, solar panels wear out. Over the years, heating and cooling cycles stress the materials. Small cracks ...
Current approaches to silver recovery from end-of-life PV modules are dominated by acid leaching. While effective, the ...
When it comes to solar technology, no one is better equipped to separate the genuine potential from the hype than the Department of Energy, which spearheads the country's solar research efforts. So it ...
Scientists create perovskite film semiconductors at room temperature using lasers, which is a revolution for chips and solar ...
An employee works on a solar panel inside a Qcells factory in Dalton, Ga. Mike Stewart/AP / AP A couple of years ago, Mick McDaniel started a company in Indianapolis to make solar panels in the United ...
(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Anurag Srivastava, West Virginia University (THE CONVERSATION) It’s hard work soaking ...
Broken and worn-out solar panels can be recycled, but it's not easy. Suzanne Kreiter/The Boston Globe via Getty Images It’s hard work soaking up sunlight to generate clean electricity. After about 25 ...