Fat Spaniel String Monitoring Service Keeps Close Watch on Boulder Cancer Center Solar Array
Fat Spaniel Helps Namaste Solar Electric Track Performance and Pinpoint Faults BOULDER, Colo. and SAN JOSE, Calif., May 21 /PRNewswire/ -- Fat Spaniel Technologies, the market leader in monitoring and reporting services for distributed renewable energy systems, ...Subsidize Solar Water Heaters for Homes, Expert Tells Australian Government
As Australias federal elections near, the leading parties seek to position themselves as great champions of environment. But observers remain skeptical. Like Tim Flannery, the Australian of the Year Professor who has called upon both the ruling conservatives and the opposition to come out wit...Changes in Solar Brightness Too Weak to Explain Global Warming
Changes in the Sun's brightness over the past millennium have had only a small effect on Earth's climate, according to a review of existing results and new calculations// performed by researchers in the United States, Switzerland, and Germany. The review, led by Peter Foukal (Heliophysics, Inc...Link Between Solar Flares And Strokes Under Study
Scientists are seeking a possible link between solar energy surges and the occurrence of strokes in human beings//. Neurologists who traced about 6,800 strokes and related cerebral attacks in a region of Slovakia are studying whether solar cycles, solar wind and geomagnetic storms on Earth ma...Battelle Scientists Named on Patent for Making Oxygen From Light and Water
...gen and controls carbon dioxide using light energy and water without having to make electricity. The machine can operate on almost any light source -- solar or other -- to chemically duplicate what plants do when they absorb sunlight energy and convert it into useful chemicals. Known by the United States...Promising Results in Treating Facial Bruising From Injectables
...re than 20 years. Founded by Daniel B. Yarosh, PhD, AGI Dermatics specializes in skin photobiology, dedicating research and development to DNA repair, solar impact on the immune system, and cell-signaling in skin. The company's application of groundbreaking active ingredients and meticulously engineered li...Dimericine(R) Receives FDA Fast Track Designation for Treatment Of Photosensitivity in XP Patients
...) has granted Fast Track designation for Dimericine (T4N5) for treatment of solar and ultraviolet photosensitivity in patients with Xeroderma Pigmentosum (XP...es in skin photobiology, dedicating research and development to DNA repair, solar impact on the immune system, and cell-signaling in skin. The company's appl...Barrier Therapeutics Announces Liarozole Phase 2/3 Study Results in Lamellar Ichthyosis
...etrolatum) Ointment, for diaper dermatitis complicated by documented candidiasis; and Solage(R) (mequinol 2.0%, tretinoin 0.01%) Topical Solution, for solar lentigines. Barrier Therapeutics has other product candidates in various stages of clinical development for the treatment of a range of dermatological...Flexible solar strips light up campus bus shelter
There won't be anymore waiting in the dark at this campus bus shelter. New flexible solar cell technology developed by a group of engineering researchers at McMaster University has been installed to power lighting for night-time transit users. The researchers are also hoping that the prototy...DOE funds bio-inspired solar fuel center at Arizona State
TEMPE Ariz. -- Arizona State University will be home to a new Energy Frontier Research Center (EFRC) announced by the White House in conjunction with a speech delivered by President Barack Obama. The ASU center, one of 46 new EFRCs, will pursue advanced scientific research on solar energy conv...Ben-Gurion University research and technology used in new solar energy farm
BEER-SHEVA, ISRAEL, April 28, 2009 ZenithSolar, an Israeli start-up company, launched its first "solar farm" near Tel Aviv on April 26, based on concentrated photovoltaic (CPV) systems developed by Prof. David Faiman of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU). ZenithSolar Video Faiman,...Tufts students host Earth Day with groundbreaking ceremony for solar house
BOSTON and MEDFORD/SOMERVILLE, Mass. -- A collaborative team of student designers, engineers and planners from the Boston Architectural College and Tufts University will use Earth Day as an occasion to unveil their vision of innovative sustainable living, a house that will be solar powered, attra...Ancient diatoms lead to new technology for solar energy
CORVALLIS, Ore. Engineers at Oregon State University have discovered a way to use an ancient life form to create one of the newest technologies for solar energy, in systems that may be surprisingly simple to build compared to existing silicon-based solar cells. The secret: diatoms. These ti...Iowa Power Fund advances researchers long quest for efficient solar power
AMES, Iowa In Vikram Dalal's 37 years of researching solar technology, the efficiency of thin film solar cells for homes and buildings has improved from 1 percent to about 7 percent. Dalal, the Thomas M. Whitney Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Iowa State University and dire...NIST scientists study how to stack the deck for organic solar power
A new class of economically viable solar power cellscheap, flexible and easy to makehas come a step closer to reality as a result of recent work* at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), where scientists have deepened their understanding of the complex organic films at the hea...Nanopillars promise cheap, efficient, flexible solar cells
BERKELEY, CA Researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the University of California at Berkeley have demonstrated a way to fabricate efficient solar cells from low-cost and flexible materials. The new design grows optically active semiconductors in a...First step to converting solar energy using 'artificial leaf'
An international team of researchers has modified chlorophyll from an alga so that it resembles the extremely efficient light antennae of bacteria. The team was then able to determine the structure of these light antennae. This is the first step to converting sunlight into energy using an artifici...SRNL to study applicability of solar cell coatings
A project under way at the U.S. Department of Energy's Savannah River National Laboratory will study how special coatings that mimic structures found in nature can increase the usefulness of solar energy as a vital part of the nation's future energy strategy. Working with Peng Jiang of the Univ...Ancient diatoms lead to new technology for solar energy
CORVALLIS, Ore. Engineers at Oregon State University have discovered a way to use an ancient life form to create one of the newest technologies for solar energy, in systems that may be surprisingly simple to build compared to existing silicon-based solar cells. The secret: diatoms. These ti...University of Alberta and NINT researchers make solar energy breakthrough
EdmontonThe University of Alberta and the National Research Council's National Institute (NINT) for Nanotechnology have engineered an approach that is leading to improved performance of plastic solar cells (hybrid organic solar cells). The development of inexpensive, mass-produced plastic solar pa...Competitive exclusion principle
...example is the paradox of the plankton (or short plankton paradox ): All plankton species live on a very limited number of resources, primarily solar energy and minerals that are dissolved in the water. According to the competitive exclusion principle, only a small number of plankton species should...