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Earth & Energy A Company in Japan Just Broke the World Record for Solar Panel Efficiency   Pixaba A team from the Japanese company Kaneko has recently announced breaking the efficiency record of solar panels—which now stands at 26.6 percent. THE RISE OF SOLAR POWER Solar power is certainly on the rise around the world. There are massive solar power generating installations across Asia, with countries  like India   and China  taking turns being the home of the largest arrays. Even the United States is making some  massive strides  with this source of renewable energy. In fact, solar energy is faring better than coal—even in terms of the economy. There are  more people employed  by the solar industry than in coal, and the  price of solar power  continues to fall. A trend that is likely to continue—especially if we continue to improve the efficiency of harvesting the sun’s energy. To that end, researchers in Japan are doing th...

March 16, 2017 Robots come in many shapes, sizes and iterations. And though most of us envision the gleaming cyborgs or giant armored machines gleaned from decades of science fiction, at GE, robots are helping one of its Distributed Power manufacturing facilities become safer, more cost effective and efficient. Making its debut in Jenbach, Austria, a different kind of robot is now working alongside its human brethren. A giant robot named Goliath is helping GE staff manufacture some of the most efficient, cleanest, high tech gas engines in the world, faster and safer than ever before. With a power range of 100 kW to 10 MW, they can run on a variety of fuels, including natural gas, biogas, coal seam gases and associated petroleum gases. The Jenbacher* gas engines produced with Goliath are used in dozens of applications, like hospitals, power plants, greenhouses, residencies and even other factories to produce power, heat and cooling. They are particularly popular for renewable and wa...