Solar Cooling – A Green Energy Solution for Reducing Food Losses

Solar Holography—A Potential High Efficiency Green Energy Solution

Two impediments that acted globally against the progress and popularity of solar electricity were low efficiency and high price of traditional Silicon photovoltaic (PV) panels. Though mass manufacturing and large scale competition between manufacturers have resulted in per Watt price of about 0.3–0.5 USD, low efficiency of these panels still remains as a major hurdle. Concentrator Photovoltaics...

de Reducing food losses by intelligent food logistics

The need to feed an ever-increasing world population makes it obligatory to reduce the millions of tons of avoidable perishable waste along the food supply chain. A considerable share of these losses is caused by non-optimal cold chain processes and management. This Theme Issue focuses on technologies, models and applications to monitor changes in the product shelf life, defined as the time rem...

Increasing Food Availability by Reducing Postharvest Losses of Fresh Produce

Qualitative losses (such as loss of caloric and nutritive value, loss of acceptability by consumers, and loss of edibility) are more difficult to measure than quantitative losses of fresh fruits and vegetables. While reduction of quantitative losses is a higher priority than qualitative losses in developing countries, the opposite is true in developed countries where consumer dissatisfaction wi...

A Solar Energy Solution for Sustainable Third Generation Mobile Networks

The energy consumption of cellular networks has become increasingly important to cellular network operators, due to the significant economic and ecological influence of these networks in the future. The development of alternative energy technologies has resulted in the consideration of a solar powered base station (BS) as a long-term solution for the mobile cellular network industry, to reduce ...

Increasing Energy Efficiency by Reducing Losses and Promoting Value Propositions