More about Solar Energy (142)

| MIT engineers have proposed a new way to improve solar cell performance by using special ‘funnels’ to capture photons. The funnels would be...

| In cooperation with the Industrial Technology Center of Fukui Prefecture (Japan), Sphelar Power Corporation has prototyped an energy-harvest...

| QBotix, a California-based startup company, has found a way to use robotics technology to increase the efficiency of solar farms while reduc...

| The blackness of black silicon comes from the near-total absence of reflected light from the surface. This is desirable because it means tha...

| Researchers at the University of Basel in Switzerland say they have developed a new approach to producing environmentally sustainable photov...

| The internet community quite enjoying the destabilizing effects of global connectivity on the status quo, fights any attempt at restriction...

| High brightness LEDs and special optics allow street lamps to be spaced up to 50 meters apart -- much wider than is possible with other solu...

| Research at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) has led to solar cells with record-breaking efficiency. Contrary to convent...

| The sheet of paper looks like any other document that might have just come spitting out of an office printer, with an array of colored recta...

| While roofs across the world sport photovoltaic solar panels to convert sunlight into electricity, a Duke University engineer believes a nov...