Solar Power Guide

In the last fifteen years, individual carbon footprints have grown steadily with the introduction of portable personal gadgets like the cellphone, the tablet, laptops etc. Keeping these gadgets charged through the day requires a lot of power but most of u

The use of solar power in public spaces has increased manifold in the last few years. With the general public and government agencies responding positively to the need to make public spaces as sustainably powered as possible, designers too are motivated t

Merced county in Illinois has just commissioned a 1.4 MW solar
photovoltaic power plant on a land around two of its prisons. The
power plant has come up at the John Latrocca Correctional Facility for
Adults which has some 580 inmates and the adjacent I

As a big relief to the developing nations, a project at the University of Southampton led by Chemistry wizards, Tony Rest (a visiting prof. at the university) and Keith Wilkinson (a former teacher in an International School) has invented solar powered gen

Our dependence on the renewable sources, especially the sun, to generate power has increased drastically for the past few years, as we have realized the scarcity and the environmental harm of fossil fuels. Scientists from around the globe have been workin

This new solar charger for Android phones and Tablets, called a Pocket Panel, is built into a folding pocketbook package to make it easy to carry in pockets or backpacks on a camping trip. The solar charger will also be appreciated by people working ou

Hybrid photovoltaic cells are actually a composite of organic materials including conjugated polymers. These cells also contain some inorganic materials. The most common are CdSe, TiO, ZnO and PbS. The polymers absorb light by acting as the donor and tran