Science news articles about 'solar energy collector'

... U.S. Department of Energy's Idaho National Laboratory, is the first step toward a solar energy collector that could be mass-produced on flexible materials. While methods to convert the energy into ...

New solar concentrator more efficient, created with dyes.

... light bulbs; windows that can double as solar energy collectors; and structures that could provide offshore windmills ... MIT President Susan Hockfield and MIT Energy Initiative Director Ernest J. Moniz ...

... that is expensive and can make large-scale applications such as rooftop solar-energy collectors prohibitive. For those uses, engineers see great potential in semiconductor nanocrystals, sometimes ...