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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Penguin-inspired film switches between heating, cooling and microwave shielding, pointing to adaptive surfaces for buildings, ...