For a longer version of the story, check out this video: https://youtu.be/nS_HgfanRjA

With support from the National Science Foundation, a multidisciplinary team is engineering solar panel technology that makes greywater reusable while creating thermal energy in the process. What is now wastewater would be used at least twice, cutting demand, and the free solar energy can be captured as well.

The research in this episode was supported by NSF award #1038279, EFRI-SEED: Solar Optics-based Active Pasteurization (SOAP) for Greywater Reuse and Integrated Thermal (GRIT) Building Control. EFRI-SEED is short for Emerging Frontiers in Research and Innovation-Science and Energy in Environmental Design.

NSF Grant URL: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1038279&HistoricalAwards=false
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Solar energy plants that produce eco-friendly electricity
Reporter Song Ji-sun
The solar energy business is in the spotlight as a new and renewable energy source. It’s because new technologies are being developed actively. Korea′s solar energy business has been stalled for some time, but it is being revitalized once again. Developments were more favorable in China, but the Korean market is booming once again. Plus, tariffs are added to solar energy products from China in the American market, and thus, Korean solar energy business is seeing benefits. Reporter Song Ji-sun did a report on solar energy to see its current state. Watch her interviews with solar energy panel companies and related personnel on “Stories.”

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환경위한 착한 에너지 태양광시설
– 송지선 기자
태양광 사업은 신재생 에너지 분야의 화두!. 가장 활발하게 기술개발이 벌어지고 있는 영역이기 때문이다. 침체되어 있던 국내 태양광 사업이 기지개를 켜고 있다. 중국을 중심으로 개발 호재가 쏟아지며 내수시장도 들썩이고 있다. 여기에 미국이 중국산 태양광 제품에 반덤핑 관세를 부과하며 국내 태양광 업계가 반사이익도 누리는 분위기다. 태양광 패널의 현주소에 대해 자세히 알아보기 위해 송지선 기자가 취재에 나섰다. 태양광 패널 제작 업체 취재와 관계자 인터뷰 까지 송지선 기자의 취재 뒷 이야기를 상세히 카메라에 담았다.