Articles tagged "solar"

So what about the US? It remained in second place.

The age of tiny power is nigh.

Now that it has proved oil is the best bet by spilling it all over the place, BP is shutting down its solar power operations for good.

Steven Chu says that solar is about to be cheap, cheap.

Right now, Belgium boasts a capacity of about 1,000 megawatts, but that number is set to quadruple by 2020.

Where roads end, delivering medical assistance gets a whole lot harder.

To sonify is to make beauty available to our human senses through sound. And, through the work of artist and NASA fellow Robert Alexander, it's also a means to discovery.

Now anybody—seriously, anybody—can invest in solar power.

Finally, right?

Deutschland kicked everyone's ass in the renewable energy arena.

Next up: wind-powered nuke museums.

This is how we power all of our stuff with clean energy all of the time.

A nanostructured "sandwich" can boost the power potential of solar.

The fact that Hostess survived this long despite not responding to an increasingly-unreceptive and shrinking market sheds light on why government investment is so key to speeding growth in an industry that’s arguably more important and more in need r…

Bringing clean power post-Sandy

China wants to go green.

The Energy Information Administration estimates that there is 3,500 MW of solar capacity—rooftop panel arrays, big fat solar plants in the desert, concentrated solar, etc—currently laid out in the US of A.

Set aside, for a second, the myriad complaints that get lobbed at solar power—that they're too expensive, that they're hated by Republican politicians and have become "partisan"—and just look at the brass tacks; the potential electrical output of dif…

NASA's New Horizons spacecraft is currently gathering data while in hibernation. Talk about productive.

The house of the future should be covered in thin filmy solar power, and it might not even have to look like a giant silicon circuit board. Instead, it may resemble the house you live in now, but with a solar photovoltaic thermal energy system on the…

By and large, the hip hop community has remained curiously silent on the topic of rooftop solar installation. This is a shame. Fortunately, that coal-powered silence is about to be broken. I give you Sustainable John, and his new eco-rap video "Occup…

As a species, we’ve done alright. Technologically speaking, we’ve achieved so much in the last couple of centuries. We’ve flown to the moon, invented the Internet, I mean, we’ve even created invisibility cloaks and cloned shit. But there is one part…

Like a green Gladwell or Taleb, the writer David Owen loves unintuitive ideas about the environment (the greenest place in the U.S. isn't Portland "but New York City":http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1925797,00.html, traffic "can be a goo…