Photovoltaics

Solar Energy As a nation, we have the responsibility to provide for ourselves in the most effective and least harmful way possible. Our current reliance on fossil fuels is hindering us from this and needs to end. Renewable energy is the way of the future and should be held more valuable. In particular, solar energy is the cleanest and most abundant renewable energy resource we currently have available to us in the United States. There needs to be programs and regulations put into place that can…

Technology makes our lives easier but hurts the environment. When innovators create technology, many people use these products, which negatively impacts society. When people use more electricity than they need to, the vast amount of electricity being used affects the pollution and the environment, like when a computer is on for too long, it can burn out or slow down, which is expensive to fix. Old technologies have been hurting the environment. We use so much technology; it has negatively…

Solar energy is one of the oldest forms of energy use as our early ancestors used heat from the sun to start fires to cook food are heated rocks to provide warmth through the night. These two scenarios are both examples of solar renewable energy. You may have noticed some of your neighbors with shinny panels on top of their roof. Well your neighbors are going green and trying to get away from non-renewable energy which hurts the environment by the pollution that comes from using oil or nuclear…

Imagine walking threw a big city like New York in the middle of the afternoon. You look up and see midnight black smog that is covering the city. How would you feel not being able to see any rays of sunlight? Well, the fact that global warming has been happening for decades isn’t something new. In fact, in some cities around the word air pollution is so bad that most people are unable to walk around without an air pollution mask. Yet with the public focus in the modern world on pollution, ways…

Phase Three is centered on becoming more energy efficiency and increasing the use of solar energy so that the increasing population will have adequate energy supplies should non-renewable energy sources become depleted. Energy efficiency can be improved by setting stricter guidelines for energy use for corporations and local businesses. These guidelines should be well enforced. Being energy efficient saves money spent on energy costs, and reduces pollution emissions. Additionally, solar panels…

Solar energy is a resource that produces electricity by emitting energy from the sun in form of solar radiation. Moreover, solar energy is not only considered as a type of renewable energy, but also sustainable energy, which means that it does not harm the environment, and there are no limits for using it. Further, devices that are used to produce solar energy are solar panels and solar cell. However, everything has both negative and positive sides, and solar energy also has its advantages and…

4. RECOMMENDATIONS “We have this handy fusion reactor in the sky called the sun, you don’t have to do anything, it just works. It shows up every day.” – Elon Musk, CEO Tesla Motors Unfortunately for SolarCity, the punctuality of the sun is not going to be enough to assure the success of the company. The evolving industry of solar energy requires a fast responsive approach. For this reason at the end of the analysis it is possible propose some possible suggestions for the future developments of…

My first issue to be addressed is climate change. You can argue this from two sides, one side believing humans are causing/the main reason for this happening, and are the ones in charge of solving the issue at hand. The opposing argument being that “climate change” is a reoccurring event and has happen in the past and will continue to happen in the future. It’s the cause of heated argument and strong personal discussion. I’m choosing to address that climate change is real and is right in front…

Extended along the western coast of South America sits Chile, a country placed between the world’s deepest ocean, the Pacific, and the longest mountain chain, the Andes. This geographic predicament has left Chile vulnerable to devastating earthquakes due to the tectonic instability of the region. In addition to an unstable natural environment, societal and political instability have also plagued Chile’s past including the incident of a violent coup overthrowing the Marxist government in 1973.…

2.1. Na-ion Batteries (NIBs) Na-based batteries are not new. Back to the 1970s, Na-ion and Li-ion batteries were investigated in parallel.5,6 The investigation of Na-ion batteries significantly decreased after the success of commercial application of Li-ion batteries in the 1990s. Na-ion batteries have a very similar working principle as the Li-ion batteries. As shown in Figure 2.1, each electrochemical cell is basically composed of a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and a membrane…