Articles tagged "solar power"

An all-solar airplane just flew from San Francisco to Phoenix

Striking at India for attempting to do the very same thing is incredibly short sighted, serving no one's long term interests.

This solar plant will run 10% of Mauritania.

How a few rooftop solar panels are unraveling a 100 year-old industry.

At the rate installations are going, the energy and carbon debt incurred in making all the solar photovoltaics made to date could be paid off as soon as 2015.

The United Arab Emirates show us all how high tech solar gets done right.

Clean technology took over in 2012. And it's still rolling.

Of all the reasons to protest solar power, I present to you the dumbest.

How solar panels can thwart hackers aiming to take down the grid.

A brief history of solar powered islands.

Forget gleaming fusion power plants, the future runs on rotating silicon traffic cones.

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

Solar energy is sort of a silly challenge, not because it's not important or interesting even innovative. It's simply silly that it's so challenging.

In September, not a single new fossil fueled power plant was brought online. No coal, no natural gas. No new carbon-spewers. Instead, we saw five brand new wind farms bring 300 megawatts of capacity online, and 18 new solar installations that clocked…

The United Nations thinks that universal access to "sustainable" energy can be achieved in less than 20 years. That would mean that everyone on earth would be plugged in to clean-skewing electricity sources by 2030. Seeing as how there are some 1.3 b…

Vandals used a Sawzall to cause a hundred grand in damages to First Solar's AV Solar Ranch One.

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…

On this very day, June 20th, 33 years ago, President Jimmy Carter installed solar panels on the White House roof. Seven years after that, Ronald Reagan took them down. It was the end of 70s, a decade wracked with stagnant economic growth and a pa…

The vast majority of technological progress effects our above-ground environs. Which makes sense, because that's where we live. And the great bulk of tech innovation these days is a mad dash to improve our relationship with the environment we routine…

The biggest physical advantages of fossil fuels are that they're energy-dense and portable, which means they store a lot of power. That storage issue is one of the biggest barriers to developing a power grid reliant solely on renewable technologies.

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_Hey, whatever it takes to get the Belugas to chill out_ h3. ONE: Naked female scientist tries to tame beluga wales in below freezing water ("Daily Mail":http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2004042/Naked-female-scientist-tries-tame-beluga-whal…