As the co-owner of a California property that has never been tied to the electric grid, I can attest to the warm feeling of self-sufficiency that comes with a functioning solar power system. We’ve ...

Many of you will probably at some point have looked at a satellite dish antenna and idly wondered whether it would collect useful amounts of heat if you silvered it and pointed it at the sun. Perhaps ...

Looking for the best way to feed the world’s hunger for energy, James May visited a solar furnace to see how powerful they really are. Usually, solar furnaces are used to boil water into steam to ...

The U.S. Energy Department's National Renewable Energy Laboratory has developed an innovative furnace that sharply boosts solar cell efficiency, speeds up the processing time and could ultimately help ...

Many of you will probably at some point have looked at a satellite dish antenna and idly wondered whether it would collect useful amounts of heat if you silvered it and pointed it at the sun. Perhaps ...

The gargantuan, century-old U.S. Steel mills of Gary, Indiana, fueled the rise of smokestack America in the 20th century, their blast furnaces forging heavy metal for millions of carbon-spewing cars.

At first glance, Marriage’s flour mill in Chelmsford, England looks like any other drab industrial park building. With its boxy shape and nondescript shades of army green and taupe, the factory's ...

Using nearly undetectable particles, a team of international researchers has peered into the sun’s heart and sketched the intricate chain of reactions that drive the solar furnace. In results ...

GT Advanced Technologies has idled — and is attempting to shed — its next-generation solar wafer manufacturing facility in St. Louis, Mo., the company announced Thursday. The Nashua-based company is ...