Hot Solar Cells Associate professor of electrical engineering Minjoo Larry Lee just got 2.5 Million dollars to develop dual-junction solar cells that can operate efficiently at extreme temperatures above 398.889 Celsius (or 750 degrees Fahrenheit). That’s about as hot as it gets in a brick oven. The idea is that in addition to converting a …
Instead of summing up the past year, I’ll give you a few of the upcoming gadgets – shamelessly lifted off from other websites to save time. Flexible Phones (or just curved?) We’ve seen the Samsung Round and the LG G Flex making promises this last year, and delivering in a small way. All those teasers …
CNT Computer Scientists at Stanford University managed to build the world’s first carbon nano-tubes (CNT) based computer. It’s pretty puny – with 178 transistors, and they’re pretty big in size – comparable to silicon transistors, but with the potential to be much much smaller, and cooler. This is a huge breakthrough as the team managed …
Today I’d like to talk about renewable energy. For the most part, renewable energy, clean energy and green energy are one and the same. That’s if you’re not nit-picking, of course, as sometimes as a result of a clean energy effort, more green areas are damaged or more energy is expended in non-clean ways to make …