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One of the cleverest things we've seen in a long time. One up for the environment.
Another confirmation that solar energy is moving fast.
Power from thin air. Lots and lots of power.
There are absolutely no subsidies which means this is the cheapest power plant in the world.
... and counting!
Endless clean energy is just too good to pass up.
These five turbines signal a change through out the country.
If you thought driverless cars are part of a distant past, think again.
The coal industry is tanking -- hundreds of thousands are getting fired, while execs are getting a raise. One startling study found how little it takes to retrain those laid-off.
California will harvest freeways for electricity.
High winds and a low demand on a Sunday allowed Scottish windmills to generate 106% of the country's electricity demand.
Elon Musk has shown plenty of times in the past that he's not afraid to go a bit outside the box - or even a bit more.
Garden grass could become a source of sustainable energy, a group of scientists claim.
Europe tops the list.
This huge area will finally produce energy -- 30 years after the meltdown.
Fossil fuels could soon be a thing of the past.
Energy.
Two new massive 350MW arrays in the Netherlands will supply power to Dutch people at €87/MWh, which translates into under 10 cents/kWh.
The United Kingdom will almost certainly miss its 2020 targets for renewable energy, the National Grid has said.
Most of the world's greenhouse gas comes from cities - and that's where we have to act.
Tesla Motors wants to buy SolarCity for $2.8 billion in stock-to-stock.
The golden age of black oil is ending says a new report
You can only postpone the inevitable.
It's a reveal which unfortunately surprises no one.
A little ship braving the ocean on its own.
Dubai loves to take things to the superlative, and the city isn't toying around this time either.
The low prices are making a lot of rooftop residents jubilant, but the same can't be said about the largest solar contractors in the states whose stocks have plummeted by more than 50 percent.
The team has pushed sunlight-to-electricity conversion efficiency to 34.5% – establishing a new world record for unfocused sunlight.
Using energy from the sun, researchers converted seawater into hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) -- a fuel that can be used in fuel cells, instead of elemental hydrogen.
Portugal covered its citizens' and industry's electricity demand using power generated by wind, solar and hydro for an extraordinary 107 consecutive hours.
A new study has found that the 35,000 gas filling stations have been overcome by more than 40,000 recharge points, although many are private-owned.
A few days ago, India's Energy Minister Piyush Goyal announced that solar energy became cheaper to produce than coal-powered, costing roughly 6 US cents/kWh. Now, it's become even cheaper: the Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA) received the lowest ever asking price for solar energy, at US 2.99 cents/kWh.
In April, the United States hit an important milestone in the quest for full renewable energy transition after the one-millionth solar system was installed.
Solar is becoming cheaper - fast.
Venezuela's public workers will only work on Mondays and Tuesdays as the country falls deeper into crisis.
Ikea made it much easier for British people to green their homes – for a while. Then, after the government reduced subsidies for renewable energy, the company quietly stopped selling the panels, and now they’ve resumed them again. Why Ikea selling solar panels matters When Ikea starts selling something, it’s safe to say it’s become mainstream. […]
We may be reaching a historic moment.
Researchers from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory have found a way to reliably produce batteries that are very cheap, but can store a lot of energy.
On the desk of Seokheun "Sean" Choi sits a 3x3 array that at first glance looks like a lemon squeezer. It is, in fact, a solar panel but not like any you've seen or heard about before. Instead of using semiconductors like silicon crystals to convert sunlight into electricity, the array employs a complex system that nurtures cyanobacteria -- beings whose metabolism create free electrons which can be harnessed.
Fresh from the GE Global Research lab is this tiny monster: a turbine small enough you can hold in your hands, but powerful enough to provide energy to a whole town. It's secret lies in a couple of design features, but also the power agent. Instead of steam, the "minirotor" as it's been nicknamed is driven by supercritical carbon dioxide.
A new solar cell prototype developed by Chinese researchers may change the way we use solar panels.
Scotland has met and overcome its objective for green energy in 2015
Photosynthesis is maybe the most important chemical process on Earth, turning sunlight and CO2 into the oxygen we breath and the food we eat. This process can be reversed, however.
Enercon's E-126 turbine towers 125 meters high and can generate a staggering 7.58 MW of electricity.
Sunny states like California, Texas and Florida topped the list of states where rooftop solar could generate the most energy.
The International Renewable Energy Agency claims doubling worldwide renewable energy capacity fifteen years from now would provide savings which far exceed the costs.
Despite solar cells made with perovskite recently crossed the 20 percent efficiency mark, researchers say there's still room to improve if only they knew how charge flows at the nanometer scale. They just had to ask.
Making bottles to meet America’s demand for bottled water uses more than 17 million barrels of oil annually, enough to fuel 1.3 million cars for a year. Instead of petroleum, Stanford researchers have found a creative way to make plastic for bottles sourced from CO2 and inedible plants like waste agriculture or grasses.
India's massive investment into solar energy is already starting to pay off - much earlier than anticipated.
The largest floating solar array in the world is to be unveiled later this month, on the Queen Elizabeth II reservoir, at Walton-on-Thames. The array is estimated to generate almost 6 million kWh in its maiden year of operations. The energy will be used to power London's water treatment plants.
