Broken and worn-out solar panels can be recycled, but it's not easy. Suzanne Kreiter/The Boston Globe via Getty Images It’s hard work soaking up sunlight to generate clean electricity. After about 25 ...

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There wasn’t much of a solar energy bandwagon — let alone a crowded one — in 1972, when University of Delaware physicist Karl Böer founded the Institute of Energy Conversion. At the time, energy ...

Chinese scientists have built a solar battery that captures sunlight and stores electricity at the same time with 4.2 percent ...

Solar panels are an increasingly efficient, cost-effective, and higher-power-density renewable-energy source, though most ...

According to Mr Techatat Buranaaudsawakul, Chairman of the Electrical Engineering Department at the Engineering Institute of ...

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Use of green energy hit an all-time high last year: Renewables produced nearly a third of the electricity used around the globe, according to a new report out from the global policy network REN-21.

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Modern technologies, including wind turbines, solar energy, geothermal systems, fuel cell technology, and alternative energy systems, are at the core of finding new ways to harness energy without ...