This is the Solar Sunflower, a Swiss-made array that could be the future of solar energy. Looking like a huge, mirrored satellite dish, it combines photovoltaic solar power and concentrated solar ...

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Airlight Energy, a subsidiary of Swiss company Airlight, and IBM Research in Zurich, a development branch of the US-headquartered multinational technology company, collaborated to develop the 33-foot ...

Send for the Sunflower. A solar energy harvester could soon become the first “drop-in” machine to provide renewable energy, water and heat to off-grid communities in remote regions. The 10-metre-high, ...

When someone mentions solar technology, invariably we think of rows upon rows of rectangular panels. A system being developed by Switzerland's Airlight Energy together with IBM Research rethinks the ...

Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) plants are probably the most technologically advanced and efficient form of generating solar energy on a large scale. Currently there are only a handful in the world ...

Concentrated Solar Power (CSP) plants, such as the Gemsolar and PS10 plants in Spain, use arrays of mirrors (or heliostats) to focus a large area of the Sun's rays onto a small area, where the ...

In February of this year, we covered the release of the nifty solar Window Charger from XD Modo (now XD Design) that maximizes available sunlight by sticking to a window with a removable silicone ...

Imagine a transportable solar power station that tracks the sun like a sunflower and cools itself by pumping water through its veins just like a plant. The Sunflower Solar Harvester, developed by the ...