Friday, March 11, 2011

Stanford sees significant increase in solar panel efficiency.

Standford is using quantum dots to drastically increase the efficiency of solar panels. The best part is it seems like a very easy cheap technique to use.

Tuesday, March 1, 2011

2/11 generation and a story about self-healing batteries.

13.5mwhs total generated so far for a total of 700kwhs for February. So it looks like I barely break even on generation in November, totally fail to generate enough in December and January, break even in February then I'm back to making more power than I use for the rest of the year. That's not too bad.

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/02/self-healing-batteries/
Here's an article about potentially self-healing batteries.