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Like many engineers working in the field of energy efficiency, we consider free thermal energy to be sustainable or 'green' energy. And like many engineers we also tend to create and use a lot  of acronyms (Combined Heat and Power =CHP etc.)

 

The use of Waste Heat Energy (WHE) in Small Distributed Energy (SDE) combustion based systems (10 kW to 1 MW) like fuel cells and  micro turbines are in an early development stage due to down sizing of traditional and non-traditional waste heat utilization technologies.

 

The use of WHE in Micro Distributed Energy (MDE) systems (<10 kW) however has remained in the laboratory. But when implemented, such Micro Waste Heat Energy (MWHE)  technologies will cause a paradigm shift in our global approach to energy.  So when we learn about potential paradigm creating news, we will add it to our MWHE blog.


12/23/2011 - GREENWOOD VILLAGE, Colo.--(Solar Energy News)--Onyx Service & Solutions Inc (OTCQB: ONYX) is applauding news released from the University of Texas at Austin stating that one of its chemists has discovered a way that may allow solar panel efficiency to be doubled, possibly reaching as high as 66%. Such a development is capable of causing a positive “sea-change” in the solar power industry.

At the heart of current solar panel functionality, the panel absorbs photons from the sun. Photons are then converted into electrons. An issue with regular photovoltaic panels is that much of the energy delivered by sunlight results in the conversion of “hot” electrons, which are too high-energy to be converted to electricity in silicon and are instead lost as heat. University of Texas Chemistry professor Xiaoyang Zhu and his team discovered that an organic plastic semiconductor could double the number of electrons harvested out of one photon of sunlight.

“At current, approximately 31% insolation-to-electricity efficiency of a silicon solar cell is considered to be the maximum in the solar industry,” stated ONYX President Malcolm Burleson. “Being able to cheaply double the efficiency and even being able to reach 66% efficiency could potentially erase the barriers of competing with cheap fossil fuels very quickly.”

Professor Zhu’s process involves absorbing the photon of sunlight in Pentacene (a form of plastic) to produce a dark quantum “shadow state” from which two electrons can be retrieved, instead of just one.

Onyx Service & Solutions, Inc. mission is to manifest cutting edge energy technology, products, manufacturing advances and construction projects to successfully compete in a global energy marketplace, which includes GE (NYSE: GE), JinkoSolar (NYSE: JKS), Empresa Nacional de Electricida (NYSE: EOC) and CPFL Energia S.A. (NYSE: CPL)

For more information on the Company see: www.OnyxService.com
 

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