Flexible solar panels recycle indoor light

Flexible solar panels recycle indoor light

Integrating solar panels into windows and walls seems to be the obvious next step for the technology, but what about all of the light indoors? What if there could be a way to harness, or recycle, that light energy along with the light from the sun? Researchers at...
What’s Next for Solar Energy? How About Space

What’s Next for Solar Energy? How About Space

Scientists are closer than ever to making the far-out concept of a space-based solar collection system a reality By Michelle Z. Donahue SMITHSONIAN.COM NOVEMBER 4, 2016 535 19 0 3 42 4 769 535193420769 Think about what you know about clean sources of energy. What’s...
A new world record for solar thermal efficiency

A new world record for solar thermal efficiency

Scientists at the Australian National University have set a world record for efficiency for a solar thermal dish generating steam for power stations. The team halved energy losses and achieved a 97 percent conversion of sunlight into steam through a new receiver for a...