A clean energy future will require people with the appropriate skills to help power it – and primary and secondary schools are increasingly playing a role to help ensure that happens.
Despite forecast doom on markets worldwide and an international trade dispute on the import of solar materials between the USA and China, total investment in clean energy soared to new heights in 2011.
Researchers at MIT and RWTH Aachen University in Germany have developed a design inspired by nature that cuts the amount of land required for a Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) farm, while increasing the amount of sunlight its mirrors collect.
Tourists in their thousands flock to the U.S. Virgin islands for the beautiful beaches, warm Caribbean waters, and plentiful sunshine. But another fact about the “USVI”, as they are known, is they are also one of the heaviest consumers of oil per capita in the world.
Solar Systems, a subsidiary of Silex Systems Ltd, announced late last month it had started construction of the initial stage of what will be Australia’s largest solar farm.
We like to keep tabs on how the Mars Rover mission is going from time to time given solar power has played a huge role in its incredible success – here’s the latest.
In this episode, Virginia covers the SolarKindle, the power of buying solar in groups, electricity price rises in Victoria jump again and what commercial enterprises can do to combat electricity cost increases resulting from Australia’s carbon tax and other price hikes.
The low cost solar powered or hand cranked charged XO 3.0 tablet computer was recently unveiled at the 2012 International Consumer Electronics Show.
Dubai is embarking on a lengthy solar project of gargantuan proportions, with a similarly lengthy name to accompany it.
India’s ever-growing population is another tiny step closer to energy security with the announcement of a solar PV farm to be built near Jodhpur in the state of Rajasthan.
