Photovoltaic panels can be well worth the investment even if you live in a winter wonderland. Snow and solar cells aren’t mutually exclusive, according to a Michigan Technological Univ... 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
There’s clearly a market for long-duration ocean going robots A mola, or ocean sunfish, is a very big, very flat, and (in this reporter’s opinion) rather silly looking tropical b... Read more
These are very durable crystals compared to their organic counterparts At first glance, photovoltaic solar panels are brilliant. They’re self-contained, need no fuel and so long as the sun i... Read more
Moreover, the new technology has one big benefit. SOLAR panels get better and cheaper with every passing year. In one way, though, they are still pretty primitive. They work only with light... Read more
In California’s sun-scorched Central Valley, the monthly electric bill can easily top $200. But that’s just about what George Burman spent on electricity for all of last year. When th... Read more
“Nothing can compete with coal.” Space solar power advocates may soon get their day in the sun, as different projects aimed at beaming energy to Earth from orbit begin to take sh... Read more
“Solar has dropped like a stone” About a year ago the CEO of power company NRG Energy, David Crane, said he thought that the future of the green technology industry would rest on consumers,... Read more
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Can generate electricity without an adverse effect on the crops grown within Spain’s ULMA Agrícola consortium and Tecnalia research center have developed a new type of photovoltaic sol... Read more
The technology is not complicated, but the economics are. If solar energy is eventually going to matter— that is, generate a significant portion of the nation’s electricity — the indu... Read more
It sounds too good to be true: you can go solar without paying a cent. I first mentioned this proposition, known formally as a power-purchase agreement, two years ago: a company such as SunR... Read more
[email protected] Offers Buildings Discounts For Going Green Together Group buying is moving into the commercial clean energy space thanks to S[email protected], a program designed by San Francisco’s Depar... Read more
NAU, the design studio behind the 360-degree Immersive Cocoon we checked out earlier this month, has penned this streamlined, zero-local-emission Ecco Camper concept with a view to inspiring... Read more
It sounds like something out of science fiction – a huge swathe of the moon covered with solar panels to beam captured energy back to Earth. But plans to turn the moon into a gigantic... Read more
Solar panels have sprouted on countless rooftops, carports and fields in Northern California. Now, several start-up companies see potential for solar panels that float on water. Already, 144... Read more
