Insights into energy loss open doors for up-and-coming solar tech: Organic solar cells are an emerging technology with a lot of promise. Unlike the ubiquitous silicon solar panel, they have the potential to be lightweight, flexible, and present a variety of colors, making them particularly attractive for urban or façade applications. However, continued advancements in device performance have been sluggish as researchers work to understand the fundamental processes underlying how organic solar cells operate.

Now, engineers at Princeton University and King Abdullah University of Science and Technology have described a new way to express energy loss in organic solar cells and have extended that description to make recommendations for engineering the best devices. This breakthrough could reimagine the conventional approach to constructing organic solar cells. Their work was published Nov. 18 in Joule. #SolarTech #OrganicSolarCells

https://engineering.princeton.edu/news/2022/11/18/insights-energy-loss-open-doors-and-coming-solar-tech

#Imperial gangsters who blow up pipelines won’t bring the green revolution. That means investment and a legal framework that prohibits idiocies like Biden’s #tariffs on Chinese #solar #tech, now apparently and thankfully waived. In short, it makes the climate catastrophe worse, just like everything else, from #inflation to shortages of #essential #commodities to #nuclear #war.

"Future on fire. Capitalism and the politics of climate change", #DavidCamfield

#solartech #US #China #Russia #EU

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#Imperial gangsters who blow up pipelines won’t bring the green revolution. That means investment and a legal framework that prohibits idiocies like Biden’s #tariffs on Chinese #solar #tech, now apparently and thankfully waived. In short, it makes the climate catastrophe worse, just like everything else, from #inflation to shortages of #essential #commodities to #nuclear #war.

"Future on fire. Capitalism and the politics of climate change", #DavidCamfield

#solartech #US #China #Russia

Good afternoon #Mastodon! It's time for another #connection #connectionlist #introduction - to help you connect you with more incredible folx in the Fediverse :fediverse:

@natashamitchell is a #journo #journalist with the ABC, who presents the #ScienceFriction podcast (live broadcast from ANU Cybernetics in late November - follow #AustralianCybernetic for more deets) 🇦🇺

@daxtens is a #programmer and #linux person, who works on the #grub bootloader and he's been super helpful with guiding me to learn more around #Mastodon. Thank you so much, Daniel! 🇦🇺

@rctatman is incredible and she is a socio-#linguist and works with #languagetech such as #ASR and #TTS and #NLP. It was her #PhD work that helped me direct my own research 🇺🇸

@istathar is Andrew, and he works on #space exploration. He works with #Haskell and #fp and also #linux and #opensource.

@jwarburton is Jessica and she is into #sysadmin stuff. She is based in #Melbourne / #Naarm 🇦🇺

@ProfEuanRitchie is an #academic in #environment and #environmental issues, and he is committed to social and environmental #justice and #ecology and #conservation. He's based in #Melbourne / #Naarm 🇦🇺

@mariah is Mariah and they (I don't want to assume pronouns) are into #data #solarpunk #solartech #opensource, and also #dogsofmastodon 🇺🇸

More tonight!