An ambitious proposal by US startup Reflect Orbital has astronomers and environmentalists deeply concerned. The California-based company plans to deploy a massive constellation of satellites designed ...
A 100 MW solar plant in Dunhuang, China uses 12,000 mirrors and molten salt to store energy and generate electricity even ...
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, ...
Researchers from the International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory (INL) have developed a new kind of ultrathin solar cell. This breakthrough, the team explains, could open the door to future ...
A new database contains the results of exposure experiments on solar reflectors conducted over more than four decades. The publicly available Solar Mirror Materials Database (SMMD) will contain ...