This alien-like field of mirrors in the desert was once the future of solar energy. It’s closing after just 11 years
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 towers, ...
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Tiny plasma jets on the sun drive the elusive solar wind, Europe's Solar Orbiter reveals
"We were very surprised to see that the same tiny plasma jets appear to be driving both the fast and the slow solar wind." ...
The 3 vampire appliances you always forget to turn off but if you do could chop a chunk off your energy bills
ENERGY prices are still a constant concern for UK residents but a simple step might help you cut your costs. Experts have ...
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State agency approves record-breaking new energy project: 'We're farming the sun'
"We’re not really taking the farmland out of commission." State agency approves record-breaking new energy project: 'We're ...
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How solar geoengineering may change our skies
Ansar Lemon, an engineering PhD student at Harvard University, says the team modeled how the brightness and color of the sky at the poles changed with the injection of sulfate, calcium carbonate, and ...
Sun and Wood Can Be a Powerful Combination
This year, he expects to process enough wood to heat about a dozen homes through the long, wet winter here. The solar panels ...
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NEOWISE, the NASA mission that cataloged objects around Earth for over a decade, has come to an end
(THE CONVERSATION) The NASA project NEOWISE, which has given astronomers a detailed view of near-Earth objects – some of which could strike the Earth – ended its mission and burned on reentering the ...