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$0.55 per watt from SolarCity’s record-breaking new solar panel
For a while there, there was a chance that solar expansion was in trouble. In the US, the federal Investment Tax Credit is set to end in 2016, …
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MIT develops material that stores sunlight and releases it later as heat
The sun is always hanging in space, blasting out more energy than we could even use here on Earth. However, sunlight is much less consistent at…
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Experimental battery uses bacteria to charge and recharge
Rechargeable battery technology has been improving incrementally in recent years, but we’re still working with the same heavy, dangerous, expen…
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Surfing solar ocean platforms could one day power your home
Solar power is headed everywhere these days, from the rooftop of your home to the sky above it , to orbital space above that , even stretchin…
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New solar project to provide less expensive power than coal, but will it last?
Dubai has announced a new upcoming solar project that should deliver less expensive power than a recently approved coal-fired power plant in th…
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New particle collider can smash electrons into ‘holes’
Particle colliders have gotten very, very big, but some collider projects around the world are growing more ingenious just as quickly as the La…
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Why a Tesla-SolarCity hookup doesn’t excite all investors
Tesla, one-quarter owned by Elon Musk, wants to buy SolarCity, also a quarter owned by Elon Musk. The Tesla CEO and SolarCity chairman sees syn…
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Starting in 2018, China will begin turning coal plants into nuclear reactors
It’s a common refrain among climate change down-players — those who accept its reality, but who argue that we can’t or shouldn’t do much about …
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We could be headed for a solar power renaissance as costs keep dropping
Politicians and lobbying groups still regularly dismiss the science of climate change and efforts to increase the use of cleaner forms of energ…
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Mysterious fast radio bursts might come from alien solar sail spacecraft
Astronomers have been puzzling over fast radio bursts (FRB) for the last decade, but there’s not yet any good explanation of these high-energy …
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