Solar Has Crossed a Critical Economic Tipping Point
For years, the economic case for solar came with an awkward qualification. Yes, it had no fuel bill.…
Heat-driven elastocaloric cooling with shape memory films
Device fabrication Detailed architecture designs of the prototype are provided in Supplementary Fig. 1. The heat sink in…
India Boosts Battery Investment to Cut Solar Power Waste
Solar power developers in India have started to add battery storage to photovoltaic projects to attract buyers and…
AI’s next bottleneck is power: Chart of the Day
The AI trade started with chips. Now it’s running into the electric grid. US data center electricity demand…
Rising Energy Bills Are Fueling a Global Home Battery Boom
Consumers are battling higher energy bills worldwide due to rising inflation and greater price volatility of oil and…
Improving the stability of monolithic perovskite/silicon tandems against reverse-bias stress using graded dielectric layers
Liu, J. et al. Perovskite/silicon tandem solar cells with bilayer interface passivation. Nature 635, 596–603 (2024). Article Google…
Scientists Unveil ‘DNA Battery’ That Charges Directly From The Sun
The massive energy needs of AI servers and hyperscale data centers are driving a boom in grid storage.…
How sunburn inspired a new way to store energy
The sun does shine, sometimes, in Boston – but not like this. When chemistry professor Grace Han first…
Europe’s auspicious renewable: Hydro power – POLITICO
Nearly two months into the crisis, the troubles for Gulf oil and gas exports are far from over.…
Fusion power unlikely to become competitive
Governments are committing substantial public funding to nuclear fusion power as a potential source of safe, dispatchable low-carbon…
Contact-triggered molecular interactions enable structural refinement of perovskite layers in solar cells
Materials Urea, potassium chloride (KCl, 99.999%), thioglycolic acid, hydrochloric acid (HCl, 37%), N,N-dimethylformamide (DMF, 99.8%), dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO,…
The best AI investment might be in energy tech
Venture capitalists have placed increasingly bigger bets on AI startups, investing over half a trillion dollars into the…