Energy can never be created or destroyed. That's basic Physics 101. You simply cannot create energy out of thin air. Yet ...

This is the second installment in a series of articles examining the ideal infrastructure for building vibrant regions, with the future of Kyushu as well as Yamaguchi and Okinawa Prefectures in mind.

Solar panels are outdated. This wood-enabled solar system captures over 90 percent of sunlight and produces electricity on ...

What’s not to love about solar energy? Using photovoltaic cells — tiny semiconductors that convert light directly into ...

While this technology is, for now, at just the proof-of-concept stage, modern solar panels can already help to support homes' ...

A layered coating on delignified wood enables solar heat storage and electricity generation without carbonization, while ...

Beyond the rather low efficiency of today’s solar panels in converting the power of the sun into electricity, the ...

A set of peer-reviewed studies and federally funded research projects have shown that solar cells can double as curved mirrors, generating electricity and high-temperature heat from a single piece of ...

Thermal management in energy conversion hardware is an increasingly critical field in response to the worldwide drive for electrification and deployment of ...

Scientists are always pushing the boundaries of solar cell efficiency – how much of the available sunshine gets turned into ...

Researchers at the University of California, Santa Barbara report a liquid-phase molecular solar-thermal (MOST) system that ...

Scientists at NUS have found that adding a specific molecule during manufacturing of tandem solar cell increases its ...