INNOVATION – Page 28 – Our Fragile Earth

SILICON SOLAR CELLS

March 13, 2020 Gail McCormick HELPFUL, INNOVATION

Researchers have overcome a key obstacle in combining the emerging solar-harvesting technology of perovskites with silicon solar cells. The result[…]

BLAST FURNACE

March 5, 2020 Gail McCormick HELPFUL, INNOVATION

Heat is generated by injecting pure oxygen into a furnace. It reacts with the carbon emanating from rotting garbage in[…]

THE POWER OF WATER

February 22, 2020 Gail McCormick HELPFUL, INNOVATION

Hydropower is usually created by damming rivers and installing turbines inside the dams which can damage fish and the river[…]

PIE IN THE SKY?

February 16, 2020 Gail McCormick HELPFUL, INNOVATION

Credit: © abriendomundo/Adobe Stock A specially designed photovoltaic cell could generate up to 50 watts of power per square meter[…]

BANANA PEELS

February 3, 2020 Gail McCormick INNOVATION

Graphene sheet modelCredit: © nobeastsofierce/Adobe Stock Scientists are employing high-energy pulses of electricity to turn any source of carbon into[…]