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Video: Glass bricks provide electricity from photovoltaic
The UK team developed glass bricks that can collect solar energy to supply buildings, vehicles or storage in batteries.
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Video: Sunglasses produce electricity from sunlight
German researchers have successfully built sunglasses that can generate electricity using hidden optical cells in the glasses.
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Australia-US increased solar energy research
The Australian federal government has announced it will cooperate with the US in a solar energy research program worth $ 83 million.
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Solar battery factory begs appointment with Vietnam
First Solar Group announced to postpone the exploitation of its photovoltaic module factory in Vietnam while waiting for an increase in world supply and demand.
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Costa Rica's largest solar park comes into operation
This is the first project to be implemented in Latin America through a credit mechanism between Japan and Costa Rica.
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Panda photovoltaic plant is unique in the world
A new photovoltaic plant in Datong (China), decided to produce the most special design in the world.
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The solar power plant is made of 10,000 giant mirrors
Large mirrors concentrate the sunlight to melt nitrate salts, thereby producing enough electricity to serve an entire city.
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India will build the world's largest photovoltaic plant
With the intention of creating a network of solar panels extending beyond Manhattan, India is expected to have the world's largest solar photovoltaic plant.
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Operating the world's largest solar power plant
In an effort to promote the use of clean fuels to protect the Earth from the negative impacts of climate change, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) on March 17 officially op…
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House without energy
It is a home built in Gaithersburg, Maryland at the request of the National Institute of Standards and Technology under the US Department of Commerce (NIST). Call home
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Unique power plant shaped wine glasses
The US space agency (NASA) is studying the design of a space solar power plant shaped like a giant wine glass. This space solar power plant is called SPS-ALPHA. Currentl…
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Building a solar bridge in Lon Don
Solarcentury, the United Kingdom, started building the world's largest solar bridge as part of a new tram station in Blackfriars, London.
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Russia will build an underground city
The underground city will be built at an old mining site with a diameter of 1 km, a depth of 550m in eastern Siberia, Russia.
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Spain's solar power plant
When referring to solar energy, people often think of small photovoltaic panels placed on the roofs of environmentally friendly homes ...
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Generator on the roof of a high-rise building
Using solar cells is a way of recovering a renewable source of renewable energy. But another 'classical' way is ...