Posts Tagged ‘solar’
Fuels from the Sun
Thursday, January 14, 2010, 8:42 pm
Photon waves. (Wiki Commons)
The search for clean energy technologies is sparking a renewed effort to create fuels from sunlight-driven chemical reactions. Solar fuel technologies exist today but chemists across the nation are trying to figure out how to increase the efficiency of the reactions and create the next generation of photovoltaics.
About 100 faculty, students and visiting scientists gathered at the Univ. of North Carolina-Chapel Hill campus on Thursday to discuss advances in solar fuels research.
The event, organized by the Solar Energy Research Center, drew speakers from Johns Hopkins University, Cornell University, and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory. SERC itself is a consortium of UNC-CH, Duke, N.C. State University, N.C. Central University with RTI in Research Triangle Park. Read more…
Where will tomorrow's energy come from?
Thursday, September 24, 2009, 12:37 pmRemember cold fusion? Most scientists believe the dream of generating an abundance of cheap energy by fusing two atomic nuclei at room temperature is dead after a 1989 tabletop experiment couldn’t be repeated and its results were questioned.
RTP Wrapup 8/28
Thursday, August 27, 2009, 6:27 pmDuke University Health System announced plans for a $700 million cancer center, GlaxoSmithKline’s diet pill Alli is being investigated for possibly causing serious liver damage and Wall Street observers project a flurry of companies may try to go public after Labor Day.
