The Weaving A Home project incorporates water collection, solar power generation and solar water heating into the design. For the past few years the world has seen its share of devastating e... Read more
The SOPCAWIND tool is a piece of software that facilitates the design of wind farms, bearing in mind not only the aspects of energy productivity but also the possible impact the wind farm ma... Read more
The glare from solar farms could be a thing of the past, thanks to scientists at Loughborough University. Researchers have developed a multi-layer anti-reflection (AR) coating for glass surf... Read more
Flat panels with thousand of windmills could be made and mounted on the walls of houses or building to harvest energy for lighting, security or environmental sensing and wireless communicati... Read more
Samsung is not working alone on this initiative Using solar power to promote healthcare and education is the concept behind Samsung’s Digital Villages, a project recently launched in South A... Read more
Several companies are developing or selling robots to aid in installation or cleaning In a dusty yard under a blistering August sun, Rover was hard at work, lifting 45-pound solar panels off... Read more
The guilty secret of many of the solar chargers you see in the news is the fact that they’re too under-powered to really do the job properly. In most cases you need to keep them topped up wi... Read more
Once the two energies have been combined, they can be stored as compressed air and released according to required quantities. One of Israel’s leading investment firms in renewable energy, Ca... Read more
A new technique could help keep dust off of solar cells, a major obstacle that reduces the efficiency of photovoltaic panels. The technique, developed by Sergey Biryukov, a researcher at the... Read more
While still lacking a working prototype, the company claims to have 4 gigawatts of pre-orders. V3Solar has a brand-new solar panel design that they say will cost just 8 cents a kilowatt-hour... Read more
100 percent waste vegetable oil biodiesel will come from within 150 miles of Portsmouth, making the product as local as it is environmentally friendly Five years after being founded in a Str... Read more
V3Solar has developed a cone-shaped solar energy harvester that is claimed to generate over 20 times more electricity than a flat panel For the vast majority of those looking to harvest ener... Read more
He’s a young man from Egypt who refused to give in to hard conditions that threatened his passion for science. Though the unprofessional educational system forced him to study something he d... Read more
A French invention which has been a long time in development now has the wings to be a world beater, and is dripping with promise Every once in a while an invention crops up with the power t... Read more
The news coming out of the solar industry has been downright contrary over the last few weeks. On the R&D side, we’ve covered new breakthroughs in materials science that could dramatical... Read more