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 ...

A Swiss company inaugurated two solar furnaces on Friday in a watchmaking city, aimed at melting down and recycling the key industry's steel offcuts by using green energy. The Jura mountains form ...

Researchers have developed a new type of solar power system that can produce both electricity and heat at the same time—an innovation that could help industries capture carbon dioxide (CO₂) from their ...

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As the only undergraduate facility of its kind, The James S. Markiewicz Solar Energy Research Facility at Valparaiso University has already been offering something special to the 400 engineering ...

If Lorraine Eidahl's late husband, Robert Eidahl, were here today, he might see a bit of irony in the two giant solar furnaces that cover part of the outside of their home on Otsego Street. It was ...