Incredible solar panels made with grass!

While a large majority of research on solar energy are working with expensive high-tech materials in order to improve their capacity of absorption of energy, researchers at MIT in the United States are taking a different approach.

They realized that nothing in nature absorbs energy as well as plants, by what have developed a solar technology that combines a small amount of grass (or other agricultural waste), a powder of stabilization of oxide of zinc and titanium oxide, and a glass or metal as substrates, all of which can imitate the process of photosynthesis.

The goal might seem an illusion, though - we fervently – hope can do reality: develop a technology so simple that anyone can make their own solar panels and for almost no money.

MIT researchers have figured out how to stabilize a photosystem I (E F) chemically (the internal structures of plant cells that carry out photosynthesis), on a substrate that creates electric current when exposed to the light, all with readily available materials.

This solar cell isolates FI molecules and, finally, allows the flow of electric current through the dust of the stabilization.

Thus, rather than large factories of solar panels that require a large amount of natural materials, technology of MIT, literally, could be packed in a plastic bag small and sent to anyone who wants to make their own solar panels at home.

If DIY enthusiasts can get their hands a few cuts of grass or some other plants and the substrate, then MIT only needs to send the zinc and titanium oxide, and instructions to create energy from this mixture, and with almost no complications, they will have done its own solar panel.

Finally, according to Andreas Mershin, people will be able to mix everything and create a painting that can be applied to your ceiling. But there's a catch. For the moment, this technology doesn't have even a 2% efficiency rate yet. But it will improve, and even that is a lot of efficiency given the small amount of resources to create.

Wind Farm in Atlantic City

This technology is the great powers are beginning to implement as a way to alleviate the problem of energy demand, and in the case of the United States of America, this solution is ready to come true.

In recent times have planned a lot of projects by the U.S. government to start investing heavily in Clean Energy, seeking to engage with reduced emissions of carbon dioxide that respect did not come too, or at least not with the emphasis that had been promised after their accession to various conventions and protocols.

Among the forward-looking statements include the installation of a large number of offshore wind farms, although none has begun to be built so far were mainly distributed in the corridor of the U.S. East Coast.

The first to begin construction, as of March, would be located in Atlantic City, with the construction of an Offshore Wind Farm would have a production capacity of about 25 MW Wind Energy to supply the energy equivalent of 10,000 homes , replacing that which comes from thermal plants as you know, notoriously pollute the environment.

If all goes well would be completed by the end of 2012 and begin to be operational in early 2013, being one of the first in a series of farms that will range from Virginia to New York.