Thursday, March 22, 2012
Solar Novus Today features the work of electrical and computer engineering professor Omar Ramahi who received a $25,000 grant from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada for researching the harvest of non-visible light and is collaborating with chemists from Next Alternative Inc. on the project. “Over significant parts of the earth, the sun shines for a fraction of the day. Harvesting energy around the clock, even if the conversion efficiency is fraction of that of the photovoltaic-based technology, would lead to a the availability of a significant amount of energy,“ Ramahi says in the article. [complete article]