Over 30% of world’s electricity now comes from renewables
Even though demand for electricity rises, the share of renewable energy is increasing.
Tag: solar
Scientists achieve over 1,000 degrees Celsius with solar power alone rather than fossil fuels. A game changer for heavy industries?
Solar power could replace fossil fuels in high-heat industries like steel and cement manufacturing.
Thailand’s massive floating solar farm lays the foundation for its emission-free future
The project can supply round-the-clock solar and hydro power.
Stronger, longer-lasting perovskite solar panels could be on the way
This could mean less pollution and cheaper energy for us all
New, ultrathin solar cell doubles the current efficiency record by reaching almost 50%
It's a huge step up, but currently quite expensive to produce.
US and Chinese researchers develop cheap solar still to produce drinking water
A team of researchers from the US and China has developed a passive, solar-powered desalinization system that could quench the ...
Tesla’s new solar roof will cost as much as a shingle roof and electricity bill
Exciting news from Elon Musk.
Solar wind plus moon soil plus meteorite impacts create water on the Moon, researchers report
Can't the Moon just go to the tap like the rest of us?
Researchers figure out how coffee can boost (some) solar cells
Oh great, more competition for my morning coffee.
Solar and wind supply more than 10% of electricity in 18 US states
More and more states are benefitting from solar and wind.
Stanford designed software to spot every solar panel in the US (there’s a lot of them)
America's getting sun.
Newly-developed fuel can store solar energy for up to 18 years
It's like a battery, but flowy. And it works with heat.
Melbourne solar powered canopy that doubles as work of art wins 2018 Land Art Generator Initiative
A beautiful solar array shaped like a canopy might provide 2,220 MWh of clean energy annually to Melbourne residents.
Unique 4.6-billion-year-old meteorite is a remnant of the early solar system
It's older than Earth itself!
Rumors of Opportunity’s death “very premature”, despite three-weeks silence
Hang in there, buddy!
London’s Square Mile to use 100% renewable energy by October
A step in the right direction.
Scientists collect interstellar dust that formed the Earth and solar system
The findings might revolutionize our understanding of how the solar system came to be, as well as all planetary bodies for ...
Massive flare in the Proxima Centauri system puts its habitability into question
Flares like this one are powerful enough to turn the planet into a hellscape.
Price of new solar energy plummets by 26% in one single year
It's more profitable to start deploying new solar now than operating currently existing coal or nuclear plants.
Roadmap aims to supercharge 139 countries to 100% renewable energy by 2050
Going 100% renewable eliminates 4-7 million air pollution deaths each year and creates 24 million long-term, full-time jobs.
Solar paint makes hydrogen fuel from solar energy and water vapor
Power from thin-ish air!
World’s biggest solar power plant might be built in Nevada — it’s supposed to power 1 million homes or as much as Hoover Dam
A huge concentrated solar power plant might open in Nevada, 2020 onward.
China covered all its new energy demand with renewables in 2015 — and there was still plenty left to spare
Power from thin air. Lots and lots of power.
Chernobyl is to become the world’s largest solar power plant
This huge area will finally produce energy -- 30 years after the meltdown.
Planet Earth got hold of a new companion, and it’s here to stay
Not much bigger than an apartment building, 2016 HO3 has been confirmed as Earth's newest satellite.
First solar-powered boat to cross the Atlantic embarks on historical journey
A little ship braving the ocean on its own.
The price of solar keeps falling, Dubai received the lowest ever asking bid for energy
A few days ago, India's Energy Minister Piyush Goyal announced that solar energy became cheaper to produce than coal-powered, costing ...
The solar system brought down to scale in Nevada desert
Every picture you're likely to see of it shows planets and moons too close together prevents you from getting a ...
KTH researchers develop transparent wood for use in building and solar panels
Wood, one of the cheapest and most widely used construction materials humanity has ever employed, has just had its range ...
UK set to unveil the world’s largest floating solar array
The largest floating solar array in the world is to be unveiled later this month, on the Queen Elizabeth II ...
MIT develops new solar cells, 400 times more efficient and light enough to drape a soap bubble
An MIT research team has developed a new technology that will allow for the creation of lighter and thinner solar cells ...
France announces plans to pave 1,000 kilometers of road with solar panels
The French government announced its plan to build a 1,000 kilometer (621 mile) long stretch of solar panel-paved roads over ...
Less burns for more sunshine: renewable and fossil fuel technology integration sounds like a beach-goer’s dream
Solar-aided power plants could mean less CO2 for a fraction of the costs of solar-only, paving the way for a ...
Solar flare causing some major trouble
As we were telling you recently, the biggest solar flare in the last 4 years is upon us, and while ...
Oceans of diamonds on Uranus
A new research published in Nature Physics showed that there may be oceans of diamonds (literally) on both Uranus and ...
Electricity from trees
You're not going to power too many devices with electricity from trees. But it is a very interesting phenomenon.
Highest Silicon Solar Cell Efficiency Ever Reached
The efficiency of the solar cells is the first thing needed to be improved in order to improve the quality ...
Electric Solar Wind Sail to Power Future Space Travel In Solar System
Two years ago, the Finnish Meteorological Institute made public the fact that they had created an electric solar wind sail. ...
