Solar’s New Dawn, With Applicator Brush
Advances in technology make low-efficiency but wide areas solar energy newly practical.
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Make Solar Light, Not War
It's better to light a single solar-powered streetlight than curse the insurgency.
More Power? No, More Empowerment!
Nobel laureate Walter Kohn is bullish on renewable energy but sees the answer to global energy woes as population stabilization through the education of women.
Snagging Free-Range Solar Power in Space Is an Option
Floating solar cells far above Earth and beaming the energy to the grid has shifted from loony to funded.
Berkeley’s Ray of Hope Gets Brighter
Vice President Joe Biden expands idea to use special district bonds to pay for your solar power dreams.
Oil and Solar Do Mix
Solar power's portability has made it a go-to technology for projects out in the boonies, like oil production.
The Largest Solar Water Heater Plant is in … Denmark?
A windswept Danish island shows that solar power needn't be the sole province of sunnier climes.
Solar-Powered Plane Helps Renewables Take Flight
Bertrand Piccard has unveiled the Solar Impulse, the precursor to a craft expected to both make a sun-powered circumnavigation and solar energy cool.
Germany’s Fine Failure
Feed-in tariffs grow green power but may fall victim to energy politics, German-style.