Making Solar Panels with an Ion Cannon

Making Solar Panels with an Ion Cannon: Twin Creeks Technologies has announced a new method to make less expensive solar cells. While we see many new ways of making cheap solar panels, most of these methods focus on producing panels with alternative materials rather than silicon. But the method developed by Twin Creeks produces ultra-thin pieces of crystalline silicon by using an ion cannon dubbed Hyperion.

Wave-Powered Ocean Robots

Wave-Powered Ocean Robots: The Wave Gliders are built with a two-part construction, with a floating part, which also contains solar panels to operate on-board data collecting equipment and communications equipment, and a glider part, which is connected to the float with a cable and which is used to provide propulsion for the vehicle. The float measures 208 x 60 cm (about 82 x 24 inches) and the glider is 40 x 191 cm (about 16 x 75 in). The two are connected with a 7 meter (about 23 feet) cable. The robot weighs 90 kg (about 200 pounds).

Wind, new energy — big economic windfall | Strange Bedfellows

Politics News - seattlepi.com: Investment in wind energy and other “new” energy sources — solar, geothermal and biomass — is proving to be a big time windfall as Washington’s economy pulls out of the Great Recession.