A German research team has developed a tandem solar cell that reaches 24 percent efficiency—measured according to the fraction of photons converted into electricity (i.e., electrons). This sets a new world record as the highest efficiency achieved so far with this combination of organic and perovskite-based absorbers. The solar cell was developed by Professor Dr. […]
Chances are, the Great Salt Lake is part of your daily life, even if you don’t live in Utah. If you pop open a can of soda in the United States, it more likely than not contains magnesium harvested from the Great Salt Lake, which gives the container its strength. The fruit, vegetables and almonds […]
The world is racing toward a zero-carbon energy future, with countries setting ambitious targets that increase green energy projects under the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (via UN). An independent energy think-tank working to move the world from coal to clean energy, Ember, revealed that wind and solar reached an all-time high for global electricity generation in […]
This week, WhatsApp began rolling out emoji reactions. And it looks like the company could soon implement another overdue feature. With the latest beta release of its iOS app, WhatsApp has added an option that allows users to limit specific individuals from seeing their “Last Scene” status, according to WABetaInfo. If you’re not familiar with […]
The OnePlus 8 series has been updated to Android 12 less than a month ago, but, as with all OnePlus’ major update, this one might have added a couple of bugs too. Thankfully, the Chinese company typically patches these issues quite fast, and while in this case it took OnePlus almost a month to come […]
DuckDuckGo’s crackdown on dodgy content now extends to digital bootleggers. TorrentFreak has discovered that the search engine no longer lists results for some major pirate websites, including The Pirate Bay, 1337x and Fmovies — look for anything from their domains and you’ll come up empty-handed. Streaming and stream-ripping sites like Flixtor and 2conv also produce […]
Autumn is here and Winter is on its way. As the days get shorter and the weather starts to cool down, we’re starting to see fewer sunny days. This can be concerning for people who are thinking about installing solar panels, as they may wonder if their solar panels will still produce energy on cloudy […]
As far as greenhouse gases go, methane is the quiet villain that could stealthily drag us ever deeper into the climate crisis. In our atmosphere, it is at least 25 times more effective at trapping heat than carbon dioxide. It’s also not that efficient – through burning, less than half of the energy in the […]
Google tends to drop a new version of Android TV a month or two after releasing the final build of Android on which the OS will be based. Last year, it released Android TV 12 about a month after Android 12 made its way to Pixel phones. While the company is yet to announce Android […]
If you think you’re experiencing deja vu after reading this headline, you’re not: Google has reported another zero-day vulnerability affecting Chrome, and, by extension, all of its users. Luckily, there’s now a patch: Google issued a security report Thursday, April 14, stating the company had updated Chrome to a new build, 100.0.4896.127, to address this newly discovered flaw. […]
Perovskites are a family of materials that are currently the leading contender to potentially replace today’s silicon-based solar photovoltaics. They hold the promise of panels that are far thinner and lighter, that could be made with ultra-high throughput at room temperature instead of at hundreds of degrees, and that are cheaper and easier to transport […]
Electricity is a marvelous thing. It can power every manner of machine and digital device, but it is ephemeral. It has to be used as soon as it is created or it is lost forever. The trick to making it serve the needs of humanity is to store it, and to do that, you need […]
