Going ‘green’ with plant-based resins

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Airplanes, electronics and solar cells are all in demand, but the materials holding these items together -- epoxy thermosets -- are not environmentally friendly. Now, a group reports that they have created a plant-based thermoset that could make devices 'greener.' Read more

Solar Developers and Panel Makers Clash Over Tariff Request

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Troubled domestic manufacturers say cheap Chinese products have undercut their own, but industry groups are urging a trade panel to reject sanctions. Read more

Solar panels: Nanotechnology gives green energy a green color

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Solar panels have tremendous potential to provide affordable renewable energy, but many people see traditional black and blue panels as eyesores. Architects, homeowners and city planners may be more open to the technology if they could install colorful, efficient solar panels, and a new study brings us one step closer. Researchers have developed a method… Read more

Deep-UV probing method detects electron transfer in photovoltaics

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Scientists have developed a new method to efficiently measure electron transfer in dye-sensitized transition-metal oxide photovoltaics. Read more

Trade Commission Will Hear Solar Tariff Case, and Nafta Talks Begin

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American affiliates of solar equipment manufacturers try to counteract low import prices. Negotiations between the United States, Canada and Mexico are likely to be tense. Read more

Generating Green Energy in a Chilean Desert

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Chile is advancing in its goals for reliance on renewable energy, with South America’s first geothermal plant and a constellation of solar and wind farms. Read more

Chile’s Energy Transformation Is Powered by Wind, Sun and Volcanoes

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CERRO PABELLÓN, Chile — It looks and functions much like an oil drilling rig. As it happens, several of the men in thick blue overalls and white helmets who operate the hulking machine once made a living pumping crude. But now they are surrounded by snowcapped volcanoes, laboring to breathe up here at 14,760 feet… Read more

Turning homes into power stations could cut household fuel bills by more than 60 percent

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Energy bills could be cut by more than 60 percent -- saving the average household over £600 a year -- if homes were designed to generate, store and release their own solar energy, a report has revealed. The concept has already been proven and is operating successfully on a building in the UK. Read more

Controlled manipulation of carbon nanostructures

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Researchers around the world are looking at how they can manipulate the properties of carbon nanostructures to customize them for specific purposes; the idea is to make the promising mini-format materials commercially viable. A research team has now managed to selectively influence the properties of hybrid systems consisting of carbon nanostructures and a dye. Read more

Distributed wind power keeps spinning, growing

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America's use of distributed wind -- which is wind power generated near where it will be used -- continues to grow, according to the 2016 Distributed Wind Market Report. Read more