Researchers in Australia are working on a way to lower the cost of producing solar thermal energy by as much as 40% with the help of shatterproof rear-view mirrors originally designed for cars. That ...

A group of researchers has made more progress toward the next generation of solar technology. Scientists from the International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory, working with Uppsala University in ...

We hear so much about carbon dioxide and global climate change, and every day it seems like the price of gasoline is rising again. You might wonder if there is anything that we can do, as a society, ...

(CNN) — From a distance, the Ivanpah solar plant looks like a shimmering lake in the Mojave Desert. Up close, it’s a vast alien-like installation of hundreds of thousand of mirrors pointed at three ...

A new database contains the results of exposure experiments on solar reflectors conducted over more than four decades. The publicly available Solar Mirror Materials Database (SMMD) will contain ...

A new research paper in the Acta Astronautica journal describes a constellation of mirror satellites to increase the power at the large solar farms on Earth. Among all cases, the paper found SSO (sun ...