Using microwaves improves production, recyclability of solar cells

Solar cells are good for the environment, but they have downsides. They’re expensive to make, and there are limited ways to recycle them. But researchers have developed a new manufacturing technique that may address both of these issues.Continue Readin… Continue reading Using microwaves improves production, recyclability of solar cells

Hackaday Links: January 15, 2023

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It looks like the Martian winter may have claimed another victim, with reports that Chinese ground controllers have lost contact with the Zhurong rover. The solar-powered rover was put into …read more Continue reading Hackaday Links: January 15, 2023

Casting Metal With a Microwave and Vacuum Cleaner

Metalworking might conjure images of large furnaces powered by coal, wood, or electricity, with molten metal sloshing around and visible in its crucible. But metalworking from home doesn’t need to …read more Continue reading Casting Metal With a Microwave and Vacuum Cleaner

US Navy wirelessly beams 1.6 kW of power a kilometer using microwaves

In what it describes as the most significant demonstration of its kind in half a century, the US Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) beamed 1.6 kW of power over a kilometer (3,280 ft) using a microwave beam at the US Army Research Field in Maryland.Continu… Continue reading US Navy wirelessly beams 1.6 kW of power a kilometer using microwaves