Rifts are developling in Europe over the future of nuclear energy after the Fukushima meltdown in Japan a year ago. While some nations, including Germany, Italy and Switzerland, have decided to pull out of nuclear energy altogether, others – notably France, Britain and Poland – are pushing ahead with plans to construct new reactors. Martin…
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Two Swiss companies have teamed up to build three floating “solar islands”, each with 100 photovoltaic panels, on Lake Neuchâtel this year. Each of the floating islands — made by energy company Viteos and photovoltaics specialist Nolaris — will measure 25 metres in diameter, are to be used as laboratories to test concentrated solar power…
Cleantech investment specialists MTI Partners has announced the completion of a £2 million investment round in Oxford Photovoltaics Limited (OPV), an Oxford University spin-out Materials/Cleantech company commercializing solid-state dye sensitized solar cells for the Building Integrated Photovoltaic (BIPV) sector. These new, transparent solar cells can be produced from inexpensive, abundant, nontoxic and non-corrosive materials and…