A water feature can add a beautiful highlight to your front yard. Unfortunately, running the wiring to power a pump can be cumbersome, not to mention the fact that no one wants to waste electricity […]
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Best Solar Battery Tender
Batteries lose their charge over time, especially vehicle batteries. If you have a car or motorcycle that you only use seasonally, then you have probably experienced that horrible feeling of turning the key and getting […]
Disney World Installs 270 Acre Solar Farm
Disney World has installed its second solar installation, a 50 MW solar installation that can cover 25% of the park’s energy needs, a major step in its plan to reduce emissions by 50% by 2020. […]
Best Solar Pool Heater
Solar pools heaters are a great option for the swimming pool owner that needs a little extra heat in cooler months or even year round. Not only do they extend your soaking season, but a […]
Concentrating PV Solar Could Hit Mainstream with Insolight
Swiss company Insolight has created the most efficient concentrating photovoltaic solar panels (CPV), a technology that uses lenses to concentrate light onto small solar panels underneath, to date. After two years of research, its created […]
How a Hotter Climate Destroys Thermal Electricity Generation
Both hydropower and conventional thermal combustion electricity is depleted in a hotter new climate. A new paper published at Nature Climate Change, Power-generation system vulnerability and adaptation to changes in climate and water resources provides a comprehensive look […]
New Water Collection Method Inspired By Bugs
Harvard researchers are perfecting methods to collect water from the air via dropwise condensation so that not one precious drop gets away from us. Water is critical to life on Earth, and is in increasingly short […]
Solar Desalination to Ramp up in California
For making steam, solar thermal is already cheaper than fossil fuels. Desalination puts this cheap steam tech to great use. An innovative solar project in California will clean agricultural water through solar distillation, using the sun’s […]
Ivanpah, World’s Largest Solar Thermal Plant, Is Online
The U.S.-backed Ivanpah solar power tower plant in California officially opens, and we tell you four things you ought to – but probably don’t – know about it.
How Wind Is Helping Deliver Record-Cheap Solar
A contract for very cheap solar power in New Mexico shows the synergies to be realized from well-planned solar-wind hybrid project, researchers say.
Huge US-Backed Solar Plant At Full Power
You can call it another loan-guarantee success story: One of the world’s biggest solar PV plants is fully operational in California.
Super-Cheap Solar And The Promise Of Perovskite
The claim is that dye-sensitized solar cells that use a new process and the materials perovskite could dramatically lower the price of solar cells.
Antarctic Outpost To Use Wind, Solar Energy To Survive
Brazil’s planned Antarctic research station will use solar panels for the sunny summers and wind turbines in the long winters to supply renewable energy year-round.
New Solar: From 100% In March To 2.5% In April
Solar’s proportion of new generating capacity plunged in April. But don’t worry. Everything is OK.