SolarReserve hits a milestone on a 110-megawatt solar power plant that will have between 10 and 15 hours of energy storage in tanks of molten salt for supplying Nevada. Martin LaMonica is a senior ...

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Power-generation through the use of solar updraft towers is a fairly old concept that has only been tried at small scales until now. A more ambitious solar updraft project is underway. I dunno, maybe ...

A bright future is dawning in China as the world's largest solar tower project (by expected tower capacity) recently broke ground — and it's a major win for people and the planet alike. Recently, ...

A solar tower capable of withstanding Category 1 hurricane winds (120 kmh to 153 kmh) has been shown to be commercially viable. Three Sixty Solar, a Canadian commercial and utility-scale solar ...

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An odd cleaner energy coalition — Google, BP, Morgan Stanley and Chevron — on Monday launched a project that uses solar power to get more oil out of aging wells. After a few bumps on the road — $30 ...

This UFO shaped plant in Spain is attracting much attention as it is a 2,650 towering structure able to generate solar power ...

Passenger jets could someday fly on fuel brewed from air and sunlight, if an EU-funded design becomes a reality. A new design from a group of European scientists envisions a tower that turns carbon ...

Aldo Steinfeld, a professor at ETH Zürich’s Department of Mechanical and Process Engineering, says his system for converting ambient air into jet-ready kerosene fuel using a solar refinery tower isn’t ...

Nearly 6,190 birds died at the Ivanpah solar energy plant in Southern California’s Mojave Desert in its second year of operation, a 77 percent increase over the estimated fatalities from the previous ...

- All Three Units of 392 megawatt Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System Now Delivering Solar Power to California’s Electric Grid - NIPTON, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--NRG Energy, Inc. (NYSE:NRG), ...