Solar panels can only generate electricity; they can’t store it, so you must pair them with a stand-alone battery bank or a power station. For home emergency power (for a few hours of power), we ...

Photovoltaic efficiency has come a long way over the decades, but there’s always room for improvement. A new study analyses how to make solar thermoelectric generators, or STEGs, more efficient by ...

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