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‘Cling-Film’ Solar Cells – A New Revolution for Renewable Energy Posted: 12 Jul 2011 03:10 AM PDT Scientists from the Universities of Sheffield and Cambridge have started a new research that promises to produce cost-effective and highly efficient cling film solar cells. The idea was first published in the journal “Advanced Energy Materials”. According to them, these solar cells can also be produced with much ease. This has clearly become a great advancement in the field of renewable solar energy. To carry out the tests, the ISI Neutron Source and Diamond Light Source at STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in Oxfordshire were used. Until now, two types of solar cell materials are being used – plastic and silicon. When it comes to manufacturing of the material, plastic is known to be much much cheaper. Due to the simple manufacturing process, they can also be produced in huge quantities. When molecules having complex mixtures are spread on to a surface, the molecules move away from one another and start to accumulate at the top and bottom of the layer. Thus, a highly efficient solar cell is produced. This same principle was used by researchers to prove that by using much better and cost less manufacturing methods, where flexible layers of material are deposited over large areas like cling-film, highly...

The World’s Largest Fusion Reactor Posted: 12 Jul 2011 12:39 AM PDT Since, 1932, researchers have been successful in combining hot fusion with nuclei. Till then the concept of cold fusion was used and did not produce any satisfactory results. The research in hot fusion is still continuing and they have been successful in providing danger-free, very good potential energy source without producing much wastes. Some of the main advantages of a fusion power plant is that they will not produce any high radioactive waste which will live for a long period. They cannot be used as a deadly weapon and cannot be subjected to meltdown. Thus, it is clear that hot fusion reactor is a very good energy producer when compared to other low efficient conventional methods. In order to produce such a reactor, an international research and experimenting project was made by the name International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER). Researchers at ITER have decided to build the world’s biggest and most efficient “tokamak” nuclear reactor. Tokamak refers to the device that uses a magnetic field to restrict the plasma inside a vessel. Thus the fusion reaction process is experimented inside this vessel. The plasma that is restricted inside the vessel with the help of magnetic field is composed of deuterium...

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