The Various Ways of Storing Solar Energy

By Naomi West

Solar power is one of the biggest accomplishments that we have made in the the technology world. Thousands of people have placed their time and energy into learning out how it operates and how it has the power to aid us with our average lives. They have discovered that it is able to be utilised to light up homes, warm them, and supply them with the water they need.

Many of us are fascinated by the technology that is solar energy - but hardly any of us recognize precisely how it is able to store all of the power that the solar panels gather. All of the power is from the sun - which is why you cannot gather it during the evening hours when the sun is hidden from us.

Because of this special devices had to be made that would be able to hold it for many hours and with little troubles. There are thermal mass devices that have the power to hold the energy in the form of heat for ordinary temperatures or for distinct seasons.

These devices are more commonly developed with things that can hold up against high heat. This includes earth, stone, and water. Some of the most special and well produced devices have the ability to lower peak demand, lower the heating and cooling requirements, and switch the time it is supposed to be used during the off peak hours.

The phase change materials are also utilised for thermal storage and are some of the most inexpensive kinds. They are more ordinary for residential homes where they are easier to get a hold of and to set up. These materials include Glauber's salt and paraffin wax. The first Glauber's salt solar power heating device was utilised in 1948 in a house in Massachusetts.

Molten salts are used to hold solar power at high temperatures. This is useful for storage medium and are more notable because they are not as expensive and able to hold up against some of the most severe heat temperatures. There are also off-grid PV devices that utilise rechargeable batteries to store extra measures of electrical energy.

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Solar Energy Phones

By Jack Smith

Solar energy phones are bound to become the must-have product in the future.? As the energy reduced daily, energy saving is an eternal task. The current cell phones are almost use lithium, Ni-MH are all energy consumption, environmental pollution and difficult to recover. I strongly appeal majority people who with social responsibilities pay attention to this industrys development?

The differentiation competition urge the cell phone emerge one after another, such as business cell phone laptop battery, information security cell phone, invisible cell phone. Recently, a new kind of light energy cell phone shocked this area and attractive enough eyes. Explanting solar energy technology to cell phone has enormous appliance value? What is the technology difficulty? And whether it is becomes to the new sea of cell phone industry or not?

Plenty of consumers cell phone always out of battery, so many people have to take along 2 or 3 batteries when goes out, even someone take along the charger daily. Solving cell phone standby problem is concerned by supplier all along, along with the come forth of cell phone multimedia function, standby problem disturb the Solar panel cell phone industry and consumers all alone. Everybody hope to explants convenient, energy saving, safe and reliable solar energy technology to cell phone, make it becomes to the long-term steady dynamic supporting of cell phone in 3G eras wireless life.?

Users obviously feel that the charge frequency reduced dramatically after they use the cell phone battery which utilizes the solar energy technology. The battery working life increased obviously which convenient to people phone conversation, media and entertainment aspects. Meanwhile, new energy, new material is the inevitable trend of cell phone development. Photo-electricity converts technology full of challenges.

Current domestic chips enterprises is in weakness stage in photo-electricity convert chips and low consumption chips technology, it is difficult to achieve mass production, hence, it is difficult to realize domestic purchasing in a short period. Besides, some domestic solar energy monocrystalline silicon wafer company supplied solar energy silicon wafer with low absorptivity universally, it will affect photo-electricity effect directly. Now many laptop battery manufacturer are using the solar panel to design the new battery accessories.

How to increase the solar panel use area under the circumstance of not affecting the cell phone cosmetic, optimize the battery internal management and enhance the photovoltaic conversion will be the further focus and difficulty in technology development of solar cell phone. Now the solar panel can be used in laptop battery.

China now has more than 400 million mobile phone users with huge potential consumer market. In addition, this technology expect to realize on mobile phone, but also can be expanded to MP3, DV, DC, Bluetooth and other consumer electronics products, the application value is very wide. With gradual growth of market and increased feedback of consumer satisfaction degree, solar energy cell phone will be like a webcam as an important standard device of cell phone and become as a guideline for consumers to choose cell phone. Experts predict that solar energy cell phone battery will be a bright point next year.

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New Solar Technology - Holographic Tuning

By: Rick Solare

With the renewed emphasis on renewable energy, new technologies are emerging. Holographic tuning is one such technology and could revolutionize solar cells.

Holographic Tuning

Traditional solar panel systems are not particularly efficient and can be more than a bit of an eyesore. Since the panel systems only convert a small amount of the sunlight that hits them, there really isn't any alternative to placing the bulky beasts on your roof. Or is there?

Holographic tuning, also known as Holographic Planar Concentrator, is a new technology with one goal in mind - cheaper and small solar cell collectors. The technology is based on a unique theory in which solar cells are holographically tuned to attract and focus different spectrums of sunlight on solar cells. The cells are tuned to attract certain spectrums that can be converted without excessive heat production. This allows the cells to make the maximum amount of energy while maintaining a very small size.

Current silicon cell technology is restricted to only a few spectrums and is highly inefficient as it fails to covert up to 85 percent of the sunlight into power. To make things even better, the process is being designed to "tune" the solar light onto both sides of each cell, thus doubling the energy output.

The primary advantage of holographic tuning is it will revolutionize the solar panel as we know it. Instead of large, bulky panels that aren't particularly attractive, holographic tuning panels will look similar to regular bedroom windows, but with five or six horizontal rows of black rectangles, the cells. The prototypes are actually very striking and are a major improvement over current solar panel systems.

Prism Solar Technologies is the leading company in the holographic tuning field. The company is a subsidiary of Direct Global Power, and is pursuing the advancement of the technology through an exclusive rights license from the Illinois Institute of Technology.

Prism Solar Technologies intends to begin manufacturing of the new holographic tuning solar panels this year. Keep an eye out for these attractive, efficient solar panels.

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