We’re past the winter solstice and the days are getting longer, but that doesn’t mean we’re not sick of the sun setting around 5 in the afternoon. There is a way to get more sunlight through our ...

Scientists have used stearic acid and a combination of stearic acid and carbon black to increase thermal conductivity in a photovoltaic-thermal system linked to a heliostat field concentrator. From a ...

PASADENA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Heliogen, Inc. (“Heliogen”) (OTCQX: HLGN), a leading provider of AI-enabled concentrating solar energy technology, today announced its selection as one of nine ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A scientist at Sandia National Laboratories is exploring an unconventional way to detect asteroids after dark, by turning solar ...

Under a dark, star-streaked sky, scientists at the Sandia National Laboratories in New Mexico are deploying an unconventional tool for planetary defense: heliostats. "A heliostat is a very large — ...

Remember being a kid in the days before cell phones and computers? Instead of “texting” to your friend in class, we passed down a note one desk at a time whenever a teacher wasn’t looking. We didn’t ...

This is an ongoing project to build a heliostat from a floppy drive. Heliostats are used by solar arrays to track the sun. This mod uses the main logic board to control the head stepper motor. The ...

A major urban redevelopment is taking place in Sydney, Australia, as it attempts to become one of the word’s most liveable green cities within a 20-year time-frame as part of the “Sustainable Sydney ...

If your spaces fall short when it comes to natural sunlight, there are plenty of things you can do to remedy the situation. One clever design that really caught our eye was this modern coffee table ...