Sandia National Laboratories engineers have developed new fractal-like, concentrating solar power receivers for small- to medium-scale use that are up to 20 percent more effective at absorbi... Read more
Combining Concentrating Solar and Thermoelectric Materials Raises Efficiency Researchers at the University of Houston and Massachusetts Institute of Technology have reported a substantial ad... Read more
Masdar Institute and MIT Collaboration Produce Innovative Solar Absorber That Can Harness More Sunlight, Enhancing its Sunlight-To-Heat Efficiency Masdar Institute faculty are part of a coll... Read more
SunShot Project aims to make solar cost competitive A multidisciplinary engineering team at the University of California, San Diego developed a new nanoparticle-based material for concentrat... Read more
“Solar energy systems can satisfy much more of our hunger for electricity, at not much more cost than what we currently have,” Concentrating solar power (CSP) could supply a larg... Read more
Engineers and industry agree that although challenges abound in utility-scale solar in the sunniest places on Earth, we have the technology to go big in the desert The vast and glittering Iv... Read more
Uses superconducting magnets to strip electrons from high energy plasma jets, and generate power with no moving parts. Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute today announced the signing of an excl... Read more