Solar-powered plane takes off for round-the-world flight
Not a drop of fuel
Two pilots aboard a solar-powered aircraft took off at 7:12 a.m. local time from Abu Dhabi for the first leg of what they…
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Two pilots aboard a solar-powered aircraft took off at 7:12 a.m. local time from Abu Dhabi for the first leg of what they…
Meet robots that can clean solar panels without water for dry, dusty places.
According to PatentlyApple, Apple has filed yet another solar panel patent. While this is the eighth patent for the Cupertino, Calif.-based company…
A group of 22 students in the Netherlands unveiled their big project: an energy-positive family car that comfortably seats four passengers.
After 4 days without power thanks to Hurricane Sandy, something arrived today that will help keep my mobile devices fully charged and connected to the web. I backed a Fenix ReadySet on Kickstarter, which is a large battery that charges with an included solar panel.
Building sustainable data centers is hard — especially if you’re trying to do it in office space in Houston. This and a few less obvious lessons were the takeaways from a panel on sustainable data centers at the Open compute Summit on Wednesday.
Professor Murphy evaluates solar power from space and the giant hurdles such a scheme would face. On balance, he doesn’t expect to see this technology escape the realm of fantasy and find a place in our world. The expense and difficulty are incommensurate with the gains.
Solexant, a Silicon Valley solar thin film startup that once plotted to build its first commercial-scale factory in Oregon, has quietly raised a $30,000 round.
Cutting down on silicon used in solar panels has been a hotly pursued goal for solar startups. And now a new player is entering the ring: meet Twin Creeks Technologies, which is launching a machine that will dramatically cut the use of silicon in solar cells.
For the 1.4 billion people on the globe who don’t have access to electricity, solar’s potential is less about fighting global warming than it is about accessing electricity where there isn’t even an electric grid to be “off of.”
Developer SolarReserve announced on Thursday that it’s finished building the 510-foot solar power tower that will make up the centerpiece of its 110 MW project in Nevada.
A startup that makes materials that can convert heat into electricity plans to develop a solar hot water heater using its materials that could go on sale next year. The device will be the first product from GMZ Energy, which recently raised $14 million in funding.
It’s been a rocky couple of months for solar companies, but First Solar just hit an unexpected hurdle. The thin-film solar darling announced that Rob Gillette will no longer serve as its CEO, and Chairman and Founder Mike Ahearn will step in as interim CEO.
The ongoing investigations into the email exchanges among now-defunct solar maker Solyndra, Department of Energy officials and the White House continue, and they lead to an unusual link between Solyndra’s law firm and a DOE official that pushed for the Solyndra loan: a married couple.
Investors, including Steve Westly, cautioned the White House against visiting Solyndra’s factory, because the company seemed risky, according to emails.
Solyndra CEO Brian Harrison and CFO Bill Stover have decided not to answer any questions during an upcoming hearing on Friday and plan to invoke the Fifth Amendment in the face of questioning, the company announced late on Tuesday.
John Stewart brings you the Solyndra story in the true fashion of The Daily Show, proclaiming, “That custom-tailored Obama scandal you ordered is finally here.” To us in Silicon Valley, it shows just how big this story has gotten.
Here comes just the beginning of the fall out of solar company Solyndra’s bankruptcy: a class action lawsuit from employees, and disturbing details about how the government put a chunk of private funds in front of government loans during a refinancing of Solyndra earlier this year.
There is a growing interest to bring solar generation closer to where the power is used and accessible to the masses, and the idea of so-called “solar community garden” may be the next idea to catch on.
The race for more clean power has intensified in California, and utilities such as PG&E and San Diego Gas & Electric have been busy inking contracts to meet what is the toughest standard in the country.
A growing number of companies are working on technologies to squeeze as much juice as possible from solar panels and reduce the…
Most of the talk about solar being integrated with vehicles focuses on solar rooftops that can charge features like air conditioning —…
Unmanned war machines are out in force in the war on terror. Last year there were 5,000 military robots deployed to Iraq…
Anyone who’s been on airplanes over the years knows that checking luggage is getting to be steadily more of a nuisance –…
You are probably aware that I have been playing with the MoGo Mouse/ HP PC Card Mouse for a few days and…
ABC and Warner Bros. TV Strike Streaming Deal; network gets first dibs on its WBTV-produced shows in year one, WBTV gets the…
A huge thanks goes to Dan Moren at MacUser for posting this tip. I was literally looking for this method over the…
Sometimes, I just wish, San Francisco would stop trying. To be New York. Chris Nolan has a nice big blog post on…