Evidence of Solar PV, Battery and Conservation Advancements

Solar PV

• US solar industry to double
  
• No upfront cost for PV, numbers don't lie
  
• Solar shingles from Dow
  
• Technology Review: Silicon Microwires Could Have a Sunny Future
  
• Microscopic solar pv
  
• Amazing Glitter-Sized Photovoltaic Cells Look Like Golden Snowflakes | Inhabitat
  
• Technology Review: Hot Electrons Could Double Solar Power
  
• BBC News - Switzerland geologist on trial for 'causing quakes'
  
• Technology Review: Origami Solar Cells
  
• Technology Review: Thin-Film Solar with High Efficiency
  
• Technology Review: Superconductors to Wire a Smarter Grid
  
• Technology Review: Mining Fool's Gold for Solar
  
• Technology Review: Nanopatterns Improve Thin-Film Solar Cells
  
• UPDATE 2-Dow to sell solar shingle, sees huge market | Industries | Financial Services | Reuters
  
• Technology Review: Nano Ink Boost for Silicon Solar
  
• Technology Review: Advanced Solar Panels Coming to Market
  
• Good News! Nanosolar Reaches Solar Cell Efficiency of 16.4% and Starts Mass Production : TreeHugger
  
• Technology Review: Superefficient Solar from Nanotubes
  
• Technology Review: More Efficient, and Cheaper, Solar Cells
  
• Power Purchase Agreements Drive Solar Energy
  
• Technology Review: Nano Printing Goes Large
  
• Homeowners Shopping for Solar Panels Find Prices Have Dropped
  
• China Outdoes U.S. in Making Solar Products - NYTimes.com
  
• Researchers at UNSW claim record 43% conversion efficiency
  
• Suntech grabs multi-crystalline module efficiency world record - Photovoltaics International
  
• Renewables Account for 11% of US Energy Production
  
• Technology Review: Solar Industry: No Breakthroughs Needed
  
• Electric Company Wants Monthly Fee For Solar Users
  
• First Solar analyst day post-mortem, Part II: Efficiencies will hit 12.5% by 2012, then surpass 16% - Photovoltaics International
  
• SunRun Partners with SPG Solar
  
• Technology Review: Nanopillar Solar Cells
  
• Solar cell prices continue decline, parity with fossil fuels by 2015
  
• 52 cents manufactured cost per watt seen by 2014
  
• Record-breaking solar cells are tailored to their location - tech - 01 July 2009 - New Scientist
  
• FutureGen 'Clean' Coal Plant Loses 2 Financial Backers
  
• Technology Review: Roll-Up Solar Panels
  
• Most Powerful Solar PV Panel: 19.3%
  
• Renewable Energy Through Micro-Inverters | Apr 2009 Page of
  
• Sanyo Claims HIT Solar Cell Efficiency of 23% -- Tech-On!
  
• Technology Review: More AC Power from Solar Panels
  
• $6.4 Billion for Green Schools
  
• China looking to increase solar power goals by order of magnitude – Computer Chips & Hardware Technology | Geek.com
  
• Evergreen Solar shifts manufacturing future to China, targets US$1/W in 2012 - Photovoltaics International
  
• Technology Review: Ink-Jet Printing for Cheaper Solar Cells
  
• Technology Review: Pushing Plastic Solar Cells
  
• Taiwan invests 0M in green energy tech, including 400 MWp solar – Tech Products & Geek News | Geek.com
  
• China Seeing Drop in Manufacturing Cost of Crystalline Si Solar Cell Module -- Tech-On!
  
• Cost of solar-grade poly-silicon ingots decreasing rapidly – Computer Chips & Hardware Technology | Geek.com
  
• Suntech pushes Pluto tech to 19% efficiency on monocrystalline solar cells, 17% on multi cells - Photovoltaics International
  
• Technology Review: Cheap, Durable Nonsilicon Solar Cells
  
• Technology Review: Nanotubes That See Everything
  
• Technology Review: Blogs: Potential Energy: Solar Industry Hopeful Despite the Downturn
  
• Cheap New Solar Cells Made Much More Efficient
  
• Taking Nature's Cue For Cheaper Solar Power
  
• Residential Solar PPAs Continue To Drive Solar Market Growth - Renewable Energy World
  
• EIA Renewable Energy-Solar Photovoltaic Cell/Module Manufacturing Activities
  
• Plextronics - Light. Power. Circuitry.
  
• IEEE Spectrum: Super Soaker Inventor Invents New Thermoelectric Generator
  
• Residential Solar PPAs Continue To Drive Solar Market Growth - Renewable Energy World
  
• Access : Large-scale pattern growth of graphene films for stretchable transparent electrodes : Nature
  
• Greentech Media | First Solar Reaches Grid-Parity Milestone, Says Report
  
• Technology Review: Lifeline for Renewable Power
  
• Solar Providers Collaborate To Bring Homeowners Low-Cost, Roof-Integrated Installations
  
• When Will Solar Achieve Grid Parity? We're Already There! -- Seeking Alpha Forums
  
• Quantum Dots and Ultra-Efficient Solar Cells
  
• Nano World: Black silicon for solar power
  
• Technology Review: Betting on Green
  

Batteries and Storage

• Lithium-Ion Battery Life Could Reach 20 Years - PCWorld
  
• Stretchable, Porous, and Conductive Energy Textiles - Nano Letters (ACS Publications)
  
• IBM, researchers get 24M DOE supercomputer hours to develop controversial lithium air battery
  
• 20 Battery Startups Hitting the Road With Lithium-ion
  
• Technology Review: Tesla to Use High-Energy Batteries from Panasonic
  
• Stronger cheaper deep-cycle storage
  
• Smart Grid: How Storage Snuck Up on Us (and Why You Should Finally Pay Attention)
  
• Panasonic plans home-use storage cell
  
• Stanford wants to roll its own paper batteries -- Engadget
  
• Technology Review: Sodium-Ion Cells for Cheap Energy Storage
  
• Technology Review: Making Carbon Nanotubes into Long Fibers
  
• Technology Review: More Energy in Batteries
  
• Technology Review: Betting on a Metal-Air Battery Breakthrough
  
• Nickel-Lithium Battery
  
• Engineering prof lauded as leading innovator | ASU News
  
• Research
  
• Technology Review: Blogs: Potential Energy: U.S. Research Agency Focuses on Energy Storage
  
• Technology Review: Longer-Running Electric-Car Batteries
  
• Ceramatec Develops 24-hour Solar Energy Storage Battery | Cooler Planet News
  
• Viruses Grow Lithium-Ion Batteries - Web Extras - ASSEMBLY
  
• Technology Review: Ultracaps Could Boost Hybrid Efficiency
  
• Technology Review: Nanowire Advance for Lithium Batteries
  
• Technology Review: Lithium Battery Recycling Gets a Boost
  
• New Sony Rechargeable Battery Has 4X The Lifespan Of Current Lithium Ion Batteries | Sony Insider
  
• Greentech Media: Grid Storage Batteries and Ultracaps: An $8.3B Market by 2016
  
• Technology Review: A Costly and Unnecessary New Electricity Grid
  
• A Combined Capacitor and Battery Technology From Japan | New Energy and Fuel
  
• ZENN Motor Company Completes Additional Equity Investment in EEStor, Inc.
  
• Technology Review: Nanocapacitors with Big-Energy Storage
  
• Technology Review: IBM Invests in Battery Research
  
• Technology Review: Waterproof Lithium-Air Batteries
  
• Technology Review: GM Opens a Battery Research Lab for the Volt
  
• Technology Review: Blogs: Potential Energy: For Cheaper Solar, Fix the Inverters
  
• Atomic construction yields punchier power store - tech - 15 March 2009 - New Scientist
  
• New Nanoscale supercapacitor can store 100 times more energy | Electric Vehicle News
  
• Technology Review: Revisiting Lithium-Sulfur Batteries
  
• Future air-fueled battery could store 10 times more power | Green Tech - CNET News
  
• Technology Review: Biofuels vs. Biomass Electricity
  
• EEStor Gets a Trademark Patent on EESU and Provides Specs for a 24V EESU | GM-VOLT : Chevy Volt Electric Car Site
  
• Technology Review: Print-on-Demand Power
  
• Next-gen car solution? Scientists expand uses for electrostatic capacitor | Cleantech Group
  
• GE Invests US $15M in A123Systems - Renewable Energy World
  
• Technology Review: Better Lithium-ion Batteries
  
• Technology Review: Ultra-High-Power Lithium-Ion Batteries
  
• GM-Volt.com: Interview with Dr. Cui, Inventor of Silicon Nanowire Lithium-ion Battery Breakthrough | GM-VOLT : Chevy Volt Electric Car Site
  

Conservation and Efficiency

• Technology Review: Graphene Transistors that Work at Blistering Speeds
  
• SoCal Utilities Turn to Ice Energy to Put the Chill on Peak Demand | GreenerBuildings.com
  
• Intel's Home Dashboard Research Project
  
• Slashdot Mobile Story | Bell Labs Says Networks Can Be 1000 Times More Energy Efficient
  
• 12 hour battery life in a high-end laptop? Asus says yes
  
• Blaise Zerega: Google the New Power Utility?
  
• 'Spintronics' advances could pave the way to ultra-low-power devices – Computer Chips & Hardware Technology | Geek.com
  
• Technology Review: Blogs: Potential Energy: Perverse Incentives for Fossil Fuels
  
• Panasonic: New LED bulbs shine for 19 years | Crave - CNET
  
• OLED production to increase eight-fold by 2013 – New Tech Gadgets & Electronic Devices | Geek.com
  
• BBC NEWS | Europe | EU bans old-fashioned light bulbs
  
• Technology Review: Cheaper LEDs
  
• Search For Green Power On And Off Of The Grid : NPR
  
• Technology Review: The Big Smart Grid Challenges
  
• GE: Smart grid yields net-zero energy home | Green Tech - CNET News
  
• Microsoft Hohm: Micromanaging Your Energy Consumption | Culture Buffet | Fast Company
  
• House Passes Bill to Address Threat of Climate Change - NYTimes.com
  
• Technology Review: Gadget Charger Harvests Wireless Power
  
• Green Promise Seen in Switch to LED Lighting - Series - NYTimes.com
  
• Kodak developing cheap OLED lighting with government grant – Tech Products & Geek News | Geek.com
  
• Netbook runs on AA batteries
  
• 50% efficient LEDs by 2012
  
• Technology Review: Ultra-Efficient Organic LEDs
  
• Technology Review: Quantum Leap in Lighting
  
• Smart energy meters in every UK home by 2020 | Environment | guardian.co.uk
  
• LEDs get quantum dot color adjustment for warm softness – Tech Products & Geek News | Geek.com
  
• Make Your Home Tweet Its Energy Use (Earth Day Project!) - ReadWriteWeb
  
• Power and Processor Savings Make Linux Greenest OS
  
• VU1 - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com
  
• Freaklabs - Open Source Zigbee Blog - More Google PowerMeter Details Revealed
  
• The More You Know... - WSJ.com
  
• Big Steps In Building: Change Our Wiring to 12 Volt DC : TreeHugger
  

Electric Vehicles

• Electric Icarus: NASA Designs a One-Man Stealth Plane: Scientific American
  
• GM announces plans to manufacture electric motors – Tech Products & Geek News | Geek.com
  
• Technology Review: The Lithium Rush
  
• Cars To Help Power Our Homes? : Renewable Energy News
  
• Technology Review: Next Stop: Ultracapacitor Buses
  
• Will e-bikes be the new 'commuter cool'? - CNN.com
  
• U.S. Lends Plug-In Car Maker $529 Million : NPR
  
• Technology Review: The Electric Acid Test
  
• G.M. Puts Volt’s Mileage in City in Triple Digits - NYTimes.com
  
• Nissan dials iPhone for car remote control | Mobilize - InfoWorld
  
• MIT electric car may rival gas models on performance - Network World
  
• Technology Review: Blogs: Potential Energy: Tesla Receives Key Funding for Electric Sedan
  
• Technology Review: A Startup's Electric Sedan May Be First on the Road
  
• New Electric Racecar
  
• The Great Ethanol Scam - BusinessWeek
  
• Commerce and Energy Secretaries Agree on Smart Grid Framework - Renewable Energy World
  
• BBC NEWS | Americas | Obama to curb vehicle emissions
  
• U.S. Drops Research Into Fuel Cells for Cars - NYTimes.com
  
• Technology Review: Blogs: Potential Energy: Death of the Hydrogen Economy
  
• The Grid, Our Cars and the Net: One Idea to Link Them All | Autopia
  
• GM loses another $6 billion - May. 7, 2009
  
• BBC NEWS | UK | England | Beds/Bucks/Herts | Four-seater electric car unveiled
  
• Technology Review: A Gas-Sipping Van
  
• Technology Review: Blogs: Potential Energy: Criticism of the Obama Administration's Volt Report
  
• BBC NEWS | Business | Plan to boost electric car sales
  
• Technology Review: Can GM's Volt Save the Company?
  
• Japan gets solar parking spot for electric bikes
  
• Solar Energy's Sunny Side - Forbes.com