March 10, 2024 - Energy Update

Researchers make breakthrough in solar technology with ‘stretchable’ panels that act like rubber — here’s why it’s significant

March 10, 2024April 8, 2025 Admin

Researchers make breakthrough in solar technology with ‘stretchable’ panels that act like rubber — here’s why it’s significant March 10, 2024 “Stretchable solar cells that can function under strain have received considerable attention as an energy source.” An innovative, flexible solar cell being developed in South Korea has passed a crucial stress test. Researchers from the Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology (KAIST) are working on a rubber-like sun-catcher made from organic materials. The idea is for these elastic cells to one day help power the wearable technology that is becoming more prevalent in society, per a…

Solar-Powered Farming Is Quickly Depleting the World’s Groundwater Supply

March 10, 2024March 10, 2024 Admin

Farmers in arid regions are turning to low-cost solar pumps to irrigate their fields. This eliminates using fossil fuels and boosts crop production, but is drying up aquifers around the globe. There is a solar-powered revolution going on in the fields of India. By 2026, more than 3 million farmers will be raising irrigation water from beneath their fields using solar-powered pumps. With effectively free water available in almost unlimited quantities to grow their crops, their lives could be transformed. Until the water runs out. The desert state of Rajasthan…