Sunengy's Liquid Solar Arrays: Waterborne Cheap Electricity

The transition to a fully-renewable global energetic system has to be done in small but sure steps. New inventions pave the way towards sustainable technologies, and their experimentation on small and medium scale improves their survival chances and lowers their implementation price.

3D Solar Cells Evolution Helped by Nanotubes

Cornell University and DuPont research team started working on a project which will probably revolutionize the electronics industry. The goal is to go to thinner, lighter and more flexible transistors and solar cells. With the use of nanotubes, an economical electronics material will be made which should be as good as silicon.

A Solar-Powered Water Fountain Developed by CLU Students

The students at California Lutheran University (CLU) have built a solar-powered water fountain that resembles a handcrafted waterwheel, on the Thousand Oaks Campus.

Italy Plans to Install the World's Largest Rooftop Photovoltaic Plant

An Italian company plans to install the world's biggest rooftop solar photovoltaic plant with a Padua warehouse and truck-loading complex to generate its electric energy from the sun, according to a Berlin manufacturer.

Mirrors Help Small Norway Community See Sunlight – See How

News about improvements in efficiency of solar cells, or devices that save lives and run only on energy from the sun, emerge every day....

New Discovery Boosts Performance of Perovskite-based Solar Cells

Scientists from three leading US research institutes found a way to increase life-time of perovskite solar sells. It could finally make the technology viable...

Smart Hydro Power Turbine to Help Peruvian Farm Produce Chocolate

Numerous communities around the world live in a desperate need of electricity. For many, it is not just to have luxury, but rather to...

ZenithSolar Manufactures 75% Efficient Hybrid Solar Panels

The run after the new gold, the unlimited and cheap energy, is being pursued all over the world, not only in the US. There are states, like Israel, where solar power has been harnessed for decades in the form of hot water for its inhabitants. All those solar water heaters have been build by economical needs. In fact, only economical needs can stimulate the world to such an extent that it develops new technologies.

Hybrid Wind and Solar Powered Streetlamps That Run on Their Own

You’re putting solar panels on your roof? Why not on the streetlamps? After all, they’re one of the biggest consumers off any city’s electric...

China Envisions 3 GW of Concentrated Solar Thermal Power by 2020

For China, solar and thermal power are a apparently a killer combination. Together, they form what is called Concentrated Solar Power and that has...