Explore how space solar power and satellite energy could beam clean, continuous electricity from orbit to Earth, examining ...

An ambitious proposal by US startup Reflect Orbital has astronomers and environmentalists deeply concerned. The California-based company plans to deploy a massive constellation of satellites designed ...

A group of researchers has made more progress toward the next generation of solar technology. Scientists from the International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory, working with Uppsala University in ...

From a distance, the Ivanpah solar plant looks like a shimmering lake in the Mojave Desert. Up close, it’s a vast alien-like installation of hundreds of thousand of mirrors pointed at three towers, ...

Whether people like to believe it or not, climate change is causing the overall warming of the planet, rising sea levels, and destruction of the ozone layer. Energy is a major component to why climate ...

A massive solar tower in the Moroccan desert is the beacon of an ambitious push for a clean energy future. But fossil fuels ...

As a unique form of carbon that is so thin it is considered two-dimensional, graphene is a special material that is flexible, transparent, stronger than steel, and both electrically and thermally ...

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Forward-looking: A California startup is looking to space to solve the limits of ground-based solar power. Reflect Orbital is developing a constellation of satellites with giant Mylar mirrors to beam ...

Say farewell to traditional solar panels because there's a smart new way to bring natural light into your home, without relying on electricity. In southern countries, where sunny days are the norm, ...

A new database contains the results of exposure experiments on solar reflectors conducted over more than four decades. The publicly available Solar Mirror Materials Database (SMMD) will contain ...

If you look at this solar generator from [Concept Crafted Creations], you might think it’s somehow familiar. That’s because the design was visually inspired by the James Webb Space Telescope, or JWST.