A mirror alignment measurement device, invented by Rich Diver, a researcher at Sandia National Laboratories, may soon make one of the most popular solar collector systems, parabolic troughs, more ...

The Solar Sunflower is the latest innovation in solar panels and it’s so pretty that you’ll forget it actually has a serious function. But that’s not the best part—it’s super efficient too. The panel ...

A Kabul blacksmith is building solar heaters as an affordable and environmentally friendly alternative to using fuels in poverty-stricken Afghanistan. 1 Local blacksmith Ghulam Abbas tests a solar ...

Abengoa Solar in early May began commercial operation of Solnova 1, the company’s first 50-MW parabolic trough plant. Covering 980,000 square feet with mirrors requiring an area totaling 280 acres ...

The solar concentrator comprises six parabolic mirror reflectors of 16 metre sq area, called Scheffler concentrator. Indian Railways has been taking various eco-friendly initiatives to improve the ...

The main element of the new Clean Energy Kits is the SunFire12 parabolic cooker. Measuring nearly four feet wide, the cooker concentrates sunlight onto a focal point, where black pots or pans best ...

Scientists in Morocco have designed a new bifacial module with a cooling system, based on bifacial parabolic solar cells that are connected to each other via tubes for panel cooling. They are now ...