The world’s only heliostat designed and priced for residential use Some people have a cool, gloomy room in their house that receives little if any direct sunlight, even though i... Read more
SunCentral’s goal is to have its sunlight collectors built right into the prefabricated panels For those of us who spend most of our days under the alien glow of the artificial light that il... Read more
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
A new set of compounds for dye-sensitized solar cells have lowered costs and improved efficiency Plants have been using a green pigment for billions of years to capture sunlight, turn... Read more
These Marine Solar Cells by Phil Pauley are Revolutionary Innovation An entirely new marine design by Industrial Designer Phil Pauley, the Marine Solar Cells (MSC) are the world’s answer to... Read more
“We believe this is the first working system of its kind anywhere in the world,” Given that it typically gets hottest outside when the sunlight is most direct, it would make sens... Read more
Clean solutions to human energy demands are essential to our future. While sunlight is the most abundant source of energy at our disposal, we have yet to learn how to capture, transfer and s... Read more
There’s no doubt that skylights make for psychologically-nicer buildings, while also reducing the amount of electricity required for daytime artificial lighting. If they let in too muc... Read more
We’ve all worried about the charge on our smartphone or laptop running down when we have no access to an electrical outlet. But new technology developed by researchers at the UCLA Henr... Read more
An international team of scientists has announced success in creating hydrogen at ambient temperature and pressure using a combination of sunlight and ethanol. The team of researchers from S... Read more
Efficiency is a problem with today’s solar panels; they only collect about 20 percent of available light. Now, a University of Missouri engineer has developed a flexible solar sheet th... Read more
FOR decades, your correspondent has watched, with more than casual interest, every new twist and turn in the quest for an “artificial leaf”. His hope has been that industry might one day rep... Read more
Chemists Turn Gold to Purple — On Purpose Professor Richard Watt and his chemistry students suspected that a common protein could potentially react with sunlight and harvest its energy... Read more
While the idea of using photovoltaic technology in windows to harvest sunlight for conversion to energy is not new, Smart Energy Glass (SEG) is taking a slightly different approach with a so... Read more
Image via Wikipedia Researchers are continuing to develop strains of algae that yield a greater volume of oily compounds that can be processed into biofuels. But as more new and established... Read more
