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Solar plane completes epic round-the-world trip
Jul 26, 2016 (AFP)
Solar Impulse 2 made history on Tuesday as the first airplane to circle the globe powered only by the sun, opening up new possibilities for the future of renewa...
CleanFund to installers sell more solar to commercial building owners
Jul 26, 2016 (SPX)
CleanFund, the #1 specialty direct provider of long-term PACE financing for renewable energy, energy efficiency, water conservation and seismic improvements to ...
Solar plane nears end of historic round-the-world trip
Jul 25, 2016 (AFP)
Solar Impulse 2 was on Monday approaching the end of its epic bid to become the first sun-powered airplane to circle the globe without a drop of fuel to promote...
Solar Impulse 2 leaves Egypt for final leg of world tour
Jul 24, 2016 (AFP)
The first solar-powered plane to circle the world took off from Cairo on Sunday for Abu Dhabi, in the final leg of its journey. Swiss pilot Bertrand Piccard was...
New discoveries about photosynthesis may lead to solar cells of the future
Jul 19, 2016 (SPX)
For the first time, researchers have successfully measured in detail the flow of solar energy, in and between different parts of a photosynthetic organism. The ...
Unearthing the true cost of fossil fuels and the true value of photovoltaics
Jul 19, 2016 (SPX)
Two new studies published by Carol Olson and Frank Lenzmann in MRS Energy and Sustainability-A Review Journal (MRS E and S) shed light on the true economic, soc...
The future of perovskite solar cells has just got brighter - come rain or shine
Jul 19, 2016 (SPX)
Widely known as one of the cleanest and most renewable energy sources, solar energy is a fast growing alternative to fossil fuels. Among the various types of so...
World touring solar plane's final leg to UAE delayed
Jul 16, 2016 (AFP)
The final leg of an unprecedented world tour by a solar-powered plane was postponed Saturday due to the pilot's health, he said in a message on Twitter. The Sol...
Solar plane lands in Egypt in penultimate stop of world tour
Jul 13, 2016 (AFP)
The Solar Impulse 2 landed in Cairo on Wednesday for its penultimate stop as the solar-powered plane nears the end of its marathon tour around the world. After ...
Bavarian village pioneers clean energy revolution
Jul 13, 2016 (AFP)
A row of wind turbines towers on the edge of the picturesque Bavarian village of Wildpoldsried, population 2,600, where rolling meadows meet pine forests and Al...
New milestone in printed photovoltaic technology
Jul 13, 2016 (SPX)
Organic solar cells are considered a competitive alternative to the standard silicon cells that are used in photovoltaics. They are incredibly thin, flexible an...
New clues could help scientists harness the power of photosynthesis
Jul 11, 2016 (SPX)
Identification of a gene needed to expand light harvesting in photosynthesis into the far-red-light spectrum provides clues to the development of oxygen-produci...
Flipping crystals improves solarcell performance
Jul 11, 2016 (SPX)
In a step that could bring perovskite crystals closer to use in the burgeoning solar power industry, researchers from Los Alamos National Laboratory, Northweste...
Discovery could dramatically boost efficiency of perovskite solar cells
Jul 07, 2016 (SPX)
Scientists from the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have discovered a possible secret to dramatically boosting the e...
Solar nano-grids light up homes and businesses in Kenya
Jul 06, 2016 (SPX)
Villagers in Lemolo B and Echareria in Nakuru County, Kenya, are waking up today to a new future as new solar nano-grids installed over the last two weeks allow...
Saved by the sun
Jul 03, 2016 (SPX)
A new twist on the use of renewable energy is saving children's lives in Africa. The innovation - a solar powered oxygen delivery system - is providing concentr...
Scientists explain unusual and effective features in perovskite
Jul 01, 2016 (SPX)
Perovskite is a material with an almost ideal structure. The majority of high-temperature superconductors are perovskite-based due to their non-ideal structure....
Energy from sunlight: Further steps towards artificial photosynthesis
Jun 28, 2016 (SPX)
Chemists from the Universities of Basel and Zurich in Switzerland have come one step closer to generating energy from sunlight: for the first time, they were ab...
Explosive renewables development can deliver on Paris
Jun 28, 2016 (SPX)
While some criticize the Paris climate target as impracticable, a team of scholars argues that it is - on the contrary - a triumph of realism. First, and most i...
Eating air, making fuel
Jun 28, 2016 (SPX)
All life on the planet relies, in one way or another, on a process called carbon fixation: the ability of plants, algae and certain bacteria to "pump" carbon di...
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