Solar Development: Super Bloom or Super Bust for Desert Species?

The study found that solar panel effects on plant response were strongly influenced by weather an...

Low-cost ‘solar absorber’ promising for future power plants

Researchers have shown how to modify commercially available silicon wafers into a structure that ...

Harnessing the Sun to Purify Concentrated Waste Streams

Scientists is developing a solar-powered desalination system to recover water from concentrated w...

Georgia Tech Faculty Win Research Awards to Advance Concentrated Solar Power

Initiative to develop the next generation of concentrated solar power (CSP), a technology that us...

New material, manufacturing process use sun's heat for cheaper renewable electricity

A Purdue University-led team developed a new material and manufacturing process that would make o...

Engineering a Better World Using Mirrors, Sun, and Steam

Researchers sees this system as a clean alternative to coal and fossil fuels that feed therm...

Sponge creates steam using ambient sunlight

MIT engineers have invented a bubble-wrapped, sponge-like device that soaks up natural sunlight a...