Video surveillance is the most effective method for detecting animals flying around solar power towers, according to a study of various techniques by the U.S.
More than 1,200 people were evacuated from a Taiwan water park after solar panels caught fire in the midst of a heatwave that has seen record power consumption as the island struggles to keep cool.
While investigating perovskite crystals, University of Groningen scientists made an observation that could make perovskite solar cells more efficient.
A new wrinkle on an old technology - solid-state thermophotovoltaics (TPV) - could provide a high-efficiency alternative for directly converting high-temperature heat from concentrated solar thermal to utility-scale electricity.
Astronomers have used data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory to make a discovery that may have profound implications for understanding how the magnetic field in the Sun and stars like it are generated.
Solar Impulse 2 made history on Tuesday as the first airplane to circle the globe powered only by the sun, opening up new possibilities for the future of renewable energy.
In its round-the-world tour, the plane Solar Impulse 2 has become a showcase for Sun-powered technology, featuring innovations which could have a bright commercial future.
Solar wind forms the energy source for aurora explosions. How does the Earth's magnetosphere take in the energy of the solar wind?
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Solar Impulse 2 was on Monday approaching the end of its epic bid to become the first sun-powered airplane to circle the globe without a drop of fuel to promote renewable energy.
The first solar-powered plane to circle the world took off from Cairo on Sunday for Abu Dhabi, in the final leg of its journey.
Two new studies published by Carol Olson and Frank Lenzmann in MRS Energy and Sustainability-A Review Journal (MRS E and S) shed light on the true economic, social and environmental impacts of photovoltaics as compared to those of the fossil fuel supply chain.
Widely known as one of the cleanest and most renewable energy sources, solar energy is a fast growing alternative to fossil fuels.
For the first time, researchers have successfully measured in detail the flow of solar energy, in and between different parts of a photosynthetic organism.
NASA's first mission to "touch" the Sun has passed a critical development milestone that keeps it well on track toward its scheduled summer 2018 launch.
Solar active regions consist of strongly magnetic sunspots and surrounding regions of more diffuse magnetic field.
