Sunpower Corporation, majority owned by Cypress Semiconductor, announced that they are expanding their solar cell manufacturing plant in the Philippines (SunPower Philippines Manufacturing Ltd). About Php 27 B ($562M) is being allocated for the expansion that will increase plant capacity to 400MW. An estimated 2000 jobs will be created by the expansion.
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Researchers at Konarka Technologies have been able to devise a way to introduce a thin film solar cell into a new type of polymer battery creating a self charging battery. The polymer battery was developed by German company VARTA-Microbattery and is being used in Ipod Nano’s.
Still in it’s infancy, the initial design of the self charging battery is expected to have only 3000 hours of useful life or upto 125 days before degrading. It was initially projected for use in cellphones and other small devices.
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The University of Notre Dame’s Research group has come up with a novel way to improve the efficiency of Carbon Nano tubes by adding a film made of titanium-oxide nanoparticles to the present setup. This made energy collection more efficient than existing decisions. Although construction was considered to be cheaper, Carbon Nano Tubes lacked the collection to compete with existing solar technologies.
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Is what CNN want’s us to believe. 2006 was the year of the Solar Panel as consumers rushed to get their own in order to stave off huge energy costs. Now 2007 could be the year of the Wind Power Generator as companies are pushing these energy generating products to consumers.
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