Solar panels – Recycling key to avoiding mountains of waste
Billions of solar panels globally will soon come to the end of their lives, but when they get thrown away essential materials that are needed to make future panels are being wasted. It is estimated that there will be 78 million tonnes of total waste by 2050. This...
Solar panel heat waste captured to distil clean drinking water
Engineers have come up with a simple concept that could change increase water security and battle climate change. This is what the system might look like. The team of Engineers from King Abdullah University of Science and Technology have used a solar panel sat on top of heat-driven...