photovoltaic

Seth Woody reports from the Green Inc. blog at the Times Samsung, the Japanese conglomerate best known to Americans for its televisions and cellphones, is jumping into the American solar business. Pacific Gas and Electric, the California utility serving much of the northern and central parts of the state, asked regulators last week to approve [...]

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Larry D. Moore gallery on WikiMedia Commons (including many images not related to energy). Apart from its beauty – we suspect there’s more to this PV panel design than an attractive layout. An image of the array, comprised of a larger number of similarly or identically constructed setups, can be found after the jump.

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After Gutenberg reports in IBM Concentrator Photo Voltaic Cells thatIBM has managed to squeeze 230W of power on to a centimeter square of solar panel using concentrator photovoltaics. The energy was then converted to 70W of usable electric power, the best power efficiency yet achieved, the company claims.Relying on a piece in EETimes, After Gutenberg, [...]

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