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Seawater turns into freshwater through solar energy
According to FAO estimates, by 2025 nearly 2 billion people may not have enough drinking water to satisfy their daily needs.
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Partial solar eclipse to cast lunar shadows across Asia, Alaska
Sky watchers across much of East Asia, Siberia, the North Pacific and parts of Alaska can spend the first weekend of the new year catching a glimpse of a partial solar eclipse.
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New findings reveal the behavior of turbulence in the exceptionally hot solar corona
The sun defies conventional scientific understanding. Its upper atmosphere, known as the corona, is many millions of degrees hotter than its surface.
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How to spot every solar panel in the United States
Solar panels now account for over 10% of total electricity generation in some U.S.
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Stanford team locates nearly all US solar panels in a billion images with machine learning
Knowing which Americans have installed solar panels on their roofs and why they did so would be enormously useful for managing the changing U.S.
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Stabilizing 2D layered perovskites for photovoltaics: setting up a defensive wall
How to set up a defensive wall in a soccer game? No coach likes a gap between defensive players in the wall.
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Costa Rica hits renewable energy mark for fourth year in a row
Costa Rica has generated more than 98 percent of its power through renewable sources for the fourth year in a row, the state energy body said Thursday.
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Sunfinity Helps Lakeside Chevrolet Shift To Solar
Lakeside Chevrolet of Rockwall (www.lakesidechevrolet.com) will soon have more than superior horsepower going for it.
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SunShare Selected by Xcel Energy to Build Six New Community Solar Gardens in Colorado
SunShare, the nation's pioneer in community solar, announced that it has been awarded six new community solar gardens by Xcel Energy totaling 12 MWdc.
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Solar Frontier Americas Acquires Canadian Solar’s 210 MWp Mustang Two Solar Project
Canadian Solar Inc., has announced its wholly owned subsidiary Recurrent Energy LLC ("Recurrent Energy") has completed the sale of its 150 MWac/210…
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Photon Energy Connects 8 Solar Power Plants for 5.5 MWp in Hungary to Grid
Photon Energy announces that its subsidiary Photon Energy Solutions HU Kft has built and grid-connected eight PV power plants with a combined capacity of 5.5…
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New property revealed in graphene could lead to better performing solar panels
An international research team, co-led by a physicist at the University of California, Riverside, has discovered a new mechanism for ultra-efficient charge and…
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Sun-soaking device turns water into superheated steam
MIT engineers have built a device that soaks up enough heat from the sun to boil water and produce "superheated" steam hotter than 100 degrees Celsius, without any expensive optics.
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Research provides insights into Sun’s past, future
Andres Munoz-Jaramillo and Jose Manuel Vaquero, from Southwest Research Institute and University of Extremadura, respectively, have developed a new technique…
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Preparing for discovery with NASA’s Parker Solar Probe
Weeks after Parker Solar Probe made the closest-ever approach to a star, the science data from the first solar encounter is just making its way into the hands of the mission's scientists.
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Lithuanian scientists’ approach to perovskite solar cells – cheaper production and high efficiency
A team of chemists from Kaunas University of Technology (KTU), Lithuania together with physicists from Helmholtz Zentrum Berlin (HZB) science institute, Germany are offering novel approach for the selective layer formation in perovskite solar cells.