23 December 2020, 10:05 am EST By
GE Renewable Energy first announced its plans for a massive offshore wind turbine in 2018, and from then, the company is slowly building Haliade-X that could soon provide clean and renewable energy.
(Photo : Dogger Bank Wind Farm)
GE s Heliade-X wind turbine features a 12-MW and 13-MW variant.
GE s Haliade-X Offshore Wind Turbine
According to New Atlas, the Haliade-X was introduced a couple of years back as a 12-MW turbine that could produce enough energy that is 45% more than what other offshore wind turbines in the market could provide.
The huge structure stands at 260 meters or 853 feet in height and includes three blades that each measures 107 meters or 351 feet, which makes Haliade-X s blades the longest one ever made.
21 December 2020, 3:25 am EST By
Time is tricky. Although it is constant, there are times when we feel like time is running so fast or running too slow, and with a new experiment done by a couple of scientists, they have proven that time does indeed seem to run slow in certain circumstances, such as when you feel guilty of concealing something.
Perception of Time
The research paper entitled Time Passes Slowly When You Are Concealing Something, which is published in the scientific journal Biological Psychology, is authored by Japanese scientists Izumi Matsuda, an associate professor at Aoyama Gakuin University, and Hiroshi Nittono, a professor at Osaka University.
14 December 2020, 4:06 am EST By
Researchers are now close to reaching their long-term target of over 30% solar cell efficiency for the perovskite/silicon tandem solar cell category. At 29.15%, it surpassed the current solar cell efficiency world record of 28%.
According to a press statement from Helmholtz Zentrum Berlin (HZB), the HZB development team led by Bernd Stannowski and Steve Albrecht already received official certification for the recent value from the CalLab of the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems (ISE).
New tandem solar cell efficiency world record
Improving the solar cell efficiency of can highly increase the energy produced using the same surface area and similar amount of sunshine, which eventually led to a new world record for the perovskite/silicon tandem solar cell. This category is just one of numerous types of cell technologies currently available for converting solar energy into electricity, according to Science Alert.