Piccard never intended the vehicle for commercial use, but instead envisioned it as a way to raise awareness for sustainable energy by building the first solar-powered plane capable of ...

The United Nations estimates that 2.2 billion people lack safely managed drinking water, and communities from California to ...

The fruition of space-based solar power (SBSP) has long been stymied by a lack of enabling technologies, but thanks to a ...

A multidisciplinary team from the California Institute of Technology is a winner of the 2024 Gizmodo Science Fair for testing a satellite that proves it’s possible to collect solar energy in space and ...

A train line in western Switzerland now carries two kinds of traffic: passengers above, and sunlight below. On a 100-meter ...

Coal is by far the most polluting fuel that we use. It produces the most carbon emissions per unit of energy, and impurities ...

The capacity of solar panels fitted on campervans and off-grid vans is normally expected to be lower compared to what is ...

Although solar power is one of our greatest green energy tools, some of the components of the solar cell are not so sustainable. A new study, aiming to find a bio-based replacement for oil-based UV ...

Imagine a field of solar panels floating silently in the endless day of Earth’s orbit. Unlike their terrestrial cousins, this space-based solar array never faces nighttime, clouds, or atmospheric ...

An expert in energy technologies uses AI tools to investigate the impact of extreme weather on solar-powered and electrified homes and uncover their unique vulnerabilities and develop insights on how ...

A new study led by Dr. Lin Su of Queen Mary University of London, published today in the Journal of the American Chemical ...